# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28)

- 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（債務者の財産に関する保全処分） — address `art-28`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28
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### 第二十八条（債務者の財産に関する保全処分） — (Provisional Order Concerning Debtor's Property)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28</sup>

  **第一項**  裁判所は、破産手続開始の申立てがあった場合には、利害関係人の申立てにより又は職権で、破産手続開始の申立てにつき決定があるまでの間、債務者の財産に関し、その財産の処分禁止の仮処分その他の必要な保全処分を命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-1</sup>
  If a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings is filed, upon the petition of an interested person or by their own authority, the court may issue a provisional order that prohibits a disposal of the debtor's assets or any other necessary provisional order concerning the assets until a decision is made on the petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  裁判所は、前項の規定による保全処分を変更し、又は取り消すことができる。
  <sup>art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-2</sup>
  The court may change or reverse a provisional order issued under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第三項**  第一項の規定による保全処分及び前項の規定による決定に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。
  <sup>art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-3</sup>
  An immediate appeal may be filed against a provisional order issued under the provisions of paragraph (1) and an order issued under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第四項**  前項の即時抗告は、執行停止の効力を有しない。
  <sup>art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-4</sup>
  The immediate appeal stated in the preceding paragraph does not have the effect of a stay of enforcement.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第五項**  第三項に規定する裁判及び同項の即時抗告についての裁判があった場合には、その裁判書を当事者に送達しなければならない。この場合においては、第十条第三項本文の規定は、適用しない。
  <sup>art-28/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-5</sup>
  If a judicial decision prescribed in paragraph (3) and a judicial decision on the immediate appeal stated in that paragraph are made, the written judgments must be served upon the parties. In this case, the provisions of the main clause of Article 10, paragraph (3) do not apply.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第六項**  裁判所が第一項の規定により債務者が債権者に対して弁済その他の債務を消滅させる行為をすることを禁止する旨の保全処分を命じた場合には、債権者は、破産手続の関係においては、当該保全処分に反してされた弁済その他の債務を消滅させる行為の効力を主張することができない。ただし、債権者が、その行為の当時、当該保全処分がされたことを知っていたときに限る。
  <sup>art-28/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-6</sup>
  Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), if the court has issued a provisional order prohibiting a debtor from making payments to a creditor or conducting any other act with the creditor to extinguish the debtor's debt, the creditor may not assert the effect of the payment or any other act to extinguish the debt, which is made or conducted in violation of the provisional order in relation to the bankruptcy proceedings; provided, however, that this applies only if the creditor knows the fact that the provisional order was issued at the time of the act.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-28/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-1
- art-28/par-3: 第一項 → 破産法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-1
- art-28/par-3: 前項 → 破産法 第二十八条第二項 (Article 28, paragraph (2)), art-28/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-2
- art-28/par-4: 前項 → 破産法 第二十八条第三項 (Article 28, paragraph (3)), art-28/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-3
- art-28/par-5: 第三項 → 破産法 第二十八条第三項 (Article 28, paragraph (3)), art-28/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-3
- art-28/par-5: 第十条第三項 → 破産法 第十条第三項 (Article 10, paragraph (3)), art-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-10/par-3
- art-28/par-6: 第一項 → 破産法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-1

## Cited by

10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 破産法 第十一条第四項第一号（事件に関する文書の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-11/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-11/par-4/item-1
- 破産法 第二十五条第一項（包括的禁止命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-25/par-1
- 破産法 第二十八条第二項（債務者の財産に関する保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-2
- 破産法 第二十八条第三項（債務者の財産に関する保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-3
- 破産法 第二十八条第四項（債務者の財産に関する保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-4
- 破産法 第二十八条第五項（債務者の財産に関する保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-5
- 破産法 第二十八条第六項（債務者の財産に関する保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-28/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-28/par-6
- 破産法 第二十九条第一項（破産手続開始の申立ての取下げの制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-29/par-1
- 破産法 第三十三条第二項（抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-33/par-2
- 破産法 第二百五十九条第一項第一号（保全処分に関する登記の嘱託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-259/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-259/par-1/item-1

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch bankruptcy-act-20261019T021325-001, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
