# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百四十四条の七 (Article 244-7) - 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: 第二百四十四条の七 (Article 244-7)（信託債権者及び受益者の地位） — address `art-244-7` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-7 - 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. --- ### 第二百四十四条の七（信託債権者及び受益者の地位） — (Status of Trust Creditors and Beneficiaries) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-244-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-7 **第一項** 信託財産について破産手続開始の決定があった場合には、信託債権を有する者及び受益者は、受託者について破産手続開始の決定があったときでも、破産手続開始の時において有する債権の全額について破産手続に参加することができる。 art-244-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-7/par-1 If an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against trust property, even when an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against the trustee, a person that holds a trust claim and a beneficiary may participate in the bankruptcy proceedings with regard to the entire amount of the claim that each of them holds at the time of commencement of bankruptcy proceedings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 信託財産について破産手続開始の決定があったときは、信託債権は、受益債権に優先する。 art-244-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-7/par-2 If an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against the trust property, a trust claim has precedence over a beneficial claim. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 受益債権と約定劣後破産債権は、同順位とする。ただし、信託行為の定めにより、約定劣後破産債権が受益債権に優先するものとすることができる。 art-244-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-7/par-3 A beneficial claim and a consensually-subordinated bankruptcy claim have the same priority; provided, however, that a consensually-subordinated bankruptcy claim may be given preference over a beneficial claim by the provisions of the terms of trust. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百四十四条の四第一項（破産手続開始の申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-4/par-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