# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4161-75/art-6` - 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-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4161-75/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-6 **第一項** 新法の施行前にした行為及び附則第三条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合における新法の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。この場合における附則第二条の規定による廃止前の破産法（以下この条及び次条において「旧法」という。）第三百七十四条から第三百七十六条まで及び第三百七十八条の規定の適用については、新法の規定によりされた破産手続開始の決定は、旧法の規定によりされた破産の宣告とみなす。 suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the enforcement of the New Act and to acts committed after the enforcement of the New Act in the case where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. In this case, for the application of Articles 374 through 376 and Article 378 of the Bankruptcy Act prior to its repeal under Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to as "the Former Act" in this Article and the following Article), an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings issued pursuant to the provisions of the New Act is deemed to be a declaration of bankruptcy made pursuant to the provisions of the Former Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1: 附則第三条第一項 → 破産法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-4161-75/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-3/par-1 - suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1: 附則第二条 → 破産法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4161-75/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-2 - suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1: この条 → 破産法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4161-75/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-6 - suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1: 次条 → 破産法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4161-75/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-7 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 附則第六条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-6/par-1 - 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