# 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 / Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade — 第三十条 (Article 30) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-30. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 (Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade), 昭和二十二年法律第五十四号 - English title "Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade": 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) — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-30 - e-Gov law ID: 322AC0000000054 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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 art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-30 **第一項** 委員長及び委員の任期は、五年とする。但し、補欠の委員長及び委員の任期は、前任者の残任期間とする。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-30/par-1 The term of office of the Chair and Commissioners is five years provided, however, that the term of office of the Chair or Commissioner appointed to fill a vacancy is the remaining term of office of the Chair or Commissioner's predecessor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 委員長及び委員は、再任されることができる。 art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-30/par-2 The Chair and Commissioners may be reappointed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 委員長及び委員は、年齢が七十年に達したときには、その地位を退く。 art-30/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-30/par-3 The Chair and Commissioners retire from office upon reaching the age of seventy. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 委員長又は委員の任期が満了し、又は欠員を生じた場合において、国会の閉会又は衆議院の解散のため両議院の同意を得ることができないときは、内閣総理大臣は、前条第二項に規定する資格を有する者のうちから、委員長又は委員を任命することができる。この場合においては、任命後最初の国会で両議院の事後の承認を得なければならない。 art-30/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-30/par-4 If the term of office of the Chair or Commissioner expires, or a vacancy occurs at a time when the consent of both Houses of the Diet cannot be obtained because the Diet is not in session or the House of Representatives has been dissolved, the Prime Minister may appoint the Chair or Commissioner from among persons who have the qualifications provided in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article. In this case, the subsequent approval of both Houses of the Diet must be obtained in the first session of the Diet after the appointment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-30/par-4: 前条第二項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-29/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第三十一条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-31/par-1/item-6 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000054/20260521_505AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06