# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百六十三条 (Article 263) - 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: 第二百六十三条 (Article 263)（責任制限手続の廃止による破産手続の中止） — address `art-263` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-263 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-263 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十三条（責任制限手続の廃止による破産手続の中止） — (Suspension of Bankruptcy Proceedings upon Discontinuance of Limitation of Liability Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-263 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-263 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-263 **第一項** 破産者のために開始した責任制限手続について責任制限手続廃止の決定があったときは、破産手続は、その決定が確定するまで中止する。 art-263/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-263/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-263/par-1 If an order of discontinuance of limitation of liability proceedings is issued with regard to the limitation of liability proceedings commenced in the interest of the bankrupt, bankruptcy proceedings are suspended until the order becomes final and binding. 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 第二十四条第一項第五号（他の手続の中止命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-24/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-24/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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