# 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 — 第三十三条 (Article 33) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-33. 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33) — address `art-33` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-33 - 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. --- ### 第三十三条 art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-33 **第一項** 委員長は、公正取引委員会の会務を総理し、公正取引委員会を代表する。 art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-33/par-1 The Chair presides over the Japan Fair Trade Commission and represents it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公正取引委員会は、あらかじめ委員のうちから、委員長が故障のある場合に委員長を代理する者を定めておかなければならない。 art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-33/par-2 The Japan Fair Trade Commission must designate in advance an acting Chair from among the Commissioners if the Chair cannot execute the Chair's duties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第三十四条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-34/par-4 --- ## 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