# 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 — 第四十六条 (Article 46) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-46. 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: 第四十六条 (Article 46) — address `art-46` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-46 - 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. --- ### 第四十六条 art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-46 **第一項** 公正取引委員会は、独占的状態に該当する事実があると思料する場合において、前条第四項の措置をとることとしたときは、その旨を当該事業者の営む事業に係る主務大臣に通知しなければならない。 art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-46/par-1 If the Japan Fair Trade Commission believes there to be a fact that falls under the purview of a monopolistic situation and decides to take the measures set forth in paragraph (4) of the preceding Article, the Japan Fair Trade Commission must notify the competent minister for the business that the enterprise concerned operates to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の通知があつた場合には、当該主務大臣は、公正取引委員会に対し、独占的状態の有無及び第八条の四第一項ただし書に規定する競争を回復するに足りると認められる他の措置に関し意見を述べることができる。 art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-46/par-2 When a notice set forth in the preceding paragraph has been given, the competent minister may express the competent minister's opinion to the Japan Fair Trade Commission regarding the existence or non-existence of a monopolistic situation and other measures that the competent minister considers sufficient to restore competition as provided in the proviso to Article 8-4, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-46/par-1: 前条第四項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第四十五条第四項 (Article 45, paragraph (4)), art-45/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-45/par-4 - art-46/par-2: 前項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第四十六条第一項 (Article 46, paragraph (1)), art-46/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-46/par-1 - art-46/par-2: 第八条の四第一項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第八条の四第一項 (Article 8-4, paragraph (1)), art-8-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-8-4/par-1 ## 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 第四十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-46/par-2 --- ## 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