# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（相殺の禁止に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4161-75/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（相殺の禁止に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Stay of Set-Offs caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4161-75/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-5 **第一項** 新法の施行前に破産債権者につき破産者に対する債務負担の原因が生じた場合における破産債権者による相殺の禁止及び新法の施行前に破産者に対して債務を負担する者につき破産債権の取得の原因が生じた場合における当該者による相殺の禁止については、新法第七十一条及び第七十二条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4161-75/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-5/par-1 With regard to the stay of set-off by a bankruptcy creditor in the case where the cause for the bankruptcy creditor to assume an obligation to the bankrupt arose before the enforcement of the New Act, and the stay of set-off by a person who assumes an obligation to the bankrupt in the case where the cause for acquisition of a bankruptcy claim by that person arose before the enforcement of the New Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 71 and 72 of the New Act. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 附則第八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-8/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch bankruptcy-act-20261019T021325-004, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19