# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-4161-75/art-7` - 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-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条 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 **第一項** 新法第二百五十四条第一項及び第二百五十五条第一項第四号の規定の適用については、旧法第三百七十四条の罪は、新法第二百六十五条の罪とみなす。 suppl-4161-75/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-7/par-1 For the application of Article 254, paragraph (1) and Article 255, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the New Act, the crime under Article 374 of the Former Act is deemed to be the crime under Article 265 of the New Act. machine translation, not official ## 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