Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act
第二条（不正競争防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
The provisions of Articles 3 through 5, Article 14 and Article 15, paragraph (2) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "New Unfair Competition Prevention Act") do not apply to the unfair competition specified in each of the following items that is committed on or after the day of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date") and that relates to information that newly becomes shared data with limited access pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (7) of the New Unfair Competition Prevention Act (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "new shared data with limited access") and was acquired before the Effective Date through an act corresponding to the unfair competition set forth in that item, and to an act of continuing on or after the Effective Date an act that was commenced before the Effective Date and that corresponds to the unfair competition set forth in paragraph (1), item (xiv) of that Article (limited to an act of using shared data with limited access) relating to new shared data with limited access.
第一条の規定による改正後の不正競争防止法（以下この条において「新不競法」という。）第三条から第五条まで、第十四条及び第十五条第二項の規定は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前に次の各号に掲げる不正競争に相当する行為により取得した新不競法第二条第七項の規定により新たに限定提供データとなる情報（以下この項において「新限定提供データ」という。）に係る当該各号に定める不正競争であって施行日以後に行われるもの及び施行日前に開始した新限定提供データに係る同条第一項第十四号に掲げる不正競争（限定提供データを使用する行為に限る。）に相当する行為を施行日以後も継続する行為については、適用しない。
the act of wrongful acquisition of shared data with limited access prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xi) of the New Unfair Competition Prevention Act: the unfair competition set forth in that item (limited to an act of using shared data with limited access);
新不競法第二条第一項第十一号に規定する限定提供データ不正取得行為 同号に掲げる不正競争（限定提供データを使用する行為に限る。）
the unfair competition set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xii) of the New Unfair Competition Prevention Act (limited to an act of acquiring shared data with limited access): the unfair competition set forth in that item (limited to an act of using shared data with limited access);
新不競法第二条第一項第十二号に掲げる不正競争（限定提供データを取得する行為に限る。） 同号に掲げる不正競争（限定提供データを使用する行為に限る。）
the unfair competition set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xv) of the New Unfair Competition Prevention Act (limited to an act of acquiring shared data with limited access): the unfair competition set forth in that item (limited to an act of using shared data with limited access).
新不競法第二条第一項第十五号に掲げる不正競争（限定提供データを取得する行為に限る。） 同号に掲げる不正競争（限定提供データを使用する行為に限る。）
The provisions of Article 5-2, paragraph (2) of the New Unfair Competition Prevention Act do not apply to production, etc. prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article (referred to as "production, etc." in the following paragraph and paragraph (4)) that is carried out on or after the Effective Date in the case of continuing an act corresponding to the possession prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article that was commenced before the Effective Date.
The provisions of Article 5-2, paragraph (3) of the New Unfair Competition Prevention Act do not apply to production, etc. carried out on or after the Effective Date in the case where there was, before the Effective Date, an act corresponding to the obtaining prescribed in that paragraph.
新不競法第五条の二第三項の規定は、施行日前に同項に規定する領得に相当する行為があった場合における施行日以後に行われる生産等については、適用しない。
The provisions of Article 5-2, paragraph (4) of the New Unfair Competition Prevention Act do not apply to production, etc. carried out on or after the Effective Date in the case of continuing an act corresponding to the possession prescribed in that paragraph that was commenced before the Effective Date.
新不競法第五条の二第四項の規定は、施行日前に開始した同項に規定する保有に相当する行為を継続する場合における施行日以後に行われる生産等については、適用しない。
With regard to the application of Article 21, paragraphs (2) and (5) of the New Unfair Competition Prevention Act during the period up to the day before the effective date of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments"), the term "imprisonment" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies to the application of these provisions on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments to acts committed before the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments.
刑法等の一部を改正する法律（令和四年法律第六十七号）の施行の日（以下この項において「刑法施行日」という。）の前日までの間における新不競法第二十一条第二項及び第五項の規定の適用については、これらの規定中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「懲役」とする。刑法施行日以後における刑法施行日前にした行為に対するこれらの規定の適用についても、同様とする。