# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) - Law: 破産法 (Bankruptcy Act), 平成十六年法律第七十五号 - English title "Bankruptcy Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（費用の仮支弁） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-23 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十三条（費用の仮支弁） — (Provisional Payment of Expenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-23 **第一項** 裁判所は、申立人の資力、破産財団となるべき財産の状況その他の事情を考慮して、申立人及び利害関係人の利益の保護のため特に必要と認めるときは、破産手続の費用を仮に国庫から支弁することができる。職権で破産手続開始の決定をした場合も、同様とする。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-23/par-1 The court may make a provisional payment of expenses for bankruptcy proceedings from the national treasury when the court finds it particularly necessary to do so for the protection of the interests of the petitioner and any interested person, while taking into consideration the petitioner's financial resources, the status of property that is to constitute the bankruptcy estate, and any other relevant circumstances. The same applies when the court issues an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings by its own authority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第一項の規定は、前項前段の規定により破産手続の費用を仮に国庫から支弁する場合には、適用しない。 art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-23/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article do not apply if a provisional payment of expenses for bankruptcy proceedings is made from the national treasury pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-2: 前条第一項 → 破産法 第二十二条第一項 (Article 22, paragraph (1)), art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-22/par-1 - art-23/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-23/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二十三条第二項（費用の仮支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-23/par-2 - 破産法 第三十条第一項第一号（破産手続開始の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 破産法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000075/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19