# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第三十条 (Article 30) - 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: 第三十条 (Article 30)（破産手続開始の決定） — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30 - 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. --- ### 第三十条（破産手続開始の決定） — (Order commencing Bankruptcy Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30 **第一項** 裁判所は、破産手続開始の申立てがあった場合において、破産手続開始の原因となる事実があると認めるときは、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合を除き、破産手続開始の決定をする。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30/par-1 If a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings is filed and the court finds a fact constituting the grounds for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, it issues an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings, except in the cases listed in the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 破産手続の費用の予納がないとき（第二十三条第一項前段の規定によりその費用を仮に国庫から支弁する場合を除く。）。 art-30/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30/par-1/item-1 when expenses for bankruptcy proceedings are not prepaid (excluding cases in which temporary payment of the expenses is made from the national treasury pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of Article 23, paragraph (1)); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 不当な目的で破産手続開始の申立てがされたとき、その他申立てが誠実にされたものでないとき。 art-30/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30/par-1/item-2 if the petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings is filed for an unjust purpose or it is not filed in good faith. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の決定は、その決定の時から、効力を生ずる。 art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30/par-2 The order issued under the preceding paragraph becomes effective from the time when it is issued. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-30/par-1/item-1: 第二十三条第一項 → 破産法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-23/par-1 - art-30/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二条第四項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-2/par-4 - 破産法 第十五条第一項（破産手続開始の原因） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-15/par-1 - 破産法 第三十条第二項（破産手続開始の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-30/par-2 - 破産法 第二百二十三条第一項（相続財産の破産手続開始の原因） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-223/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-223/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