# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百六十九条 (Article 269) - 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: 第二百六十九条 (Article 269)（重要財産開示拒絶等の罪） — address `art-269` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-269 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-269 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十九条（重要財産開示拒絶等の罪） — (Crime of Refusal of Disclosure of Important Property) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-269 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-269 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-269 **第一項** 破産者（信託財産の破産にあっては、受託者等）が第四十一条（第二百四十四条の六第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による書面の提出を拒み、又は虚偽の書面を裁判所に提出したときは、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-269/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-269/par-1 When the bankrupt (in the case of bankruptcy of trust property, a trustee, etc.) has refused to submit a document pursuant to the provisions of Article 41 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 244-6, paragraph (4)) or has submitted false documents to the court, the person is punishable by imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than three million yen, or both. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-269/par-1: 第四十一条 → 破産法 第四十一条 (Article 41), art-41 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-41 - art-269/par-1: 第二百四十四条の六第四項 → 破産法 第二百四十四条の六第四項 (Article 244-6, paragraph (4)), art-244-6/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-6/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-6/par-4 ## Cited by 2 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