# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百六十六条 (Article 266) - 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: 第二百六十六条 (Article 266)（特定の債権者に対する担保の供与等の罪） — address `art-266` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-266 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-266 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十六条（特定の債権者に対する担保の供与等の罪） — (Crime of Providing Security to Specific Creditors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-266 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-266 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-266 **第一項** 債務者（相続財産の破産にあっては相続人、相続財産の管理人、相続財産の清算人又は遺言執行者を、信託財産の破産にあっては受託者等を含む。以下この条において同じ。）が、破産手続開始の前後を問わず、特定の債権者に対する債務について、他の債権者を害する目的で、担保の供与又は債務の消滅に関する行為であって債務者の義務に属せず又はその方法若しくは時期が債務者の義務に属しないものをし、破産手続開始の決定が確定したときは、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-266/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-266/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-266/par-1 Regardless of whether before or after the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, with regard to debt to a specific creditor, if a debtor (in the case of bankruptcy of estate, including an heir, administrator of the estate, liquidator of the estate, or executor, and in the case of bankruptcy of trust property, including a trustee, etc.; the same applies below in this Article) has conducted an act concerning the provision of security or extinguishment of debt that is not included in the scope of the debtor's obligation in terms of the act itself or the means or time of performance of the act for the purpose of harming other creditors, and an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings has become final and binding, the debtor is punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than five million yen, or both. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-266/par-1: この条 → 破産法 第二百六十六条 (Article 266), art-266 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-266 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-266 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百三十一条第一項第三号（取締役の資格等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-331/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331/par-1/item-3 - 破産法 第二百六十六条第一項（特定の債権者に対する担保の供与等の罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-266/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-266/par-1 - 破産法 第二百七十六条第一項（国外犯） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-276/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-276/par-1 - 破産法 第二百七十七条第一項（両罰規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-277/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-277/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