# 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 — 第五十二条 (Article 52) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52. 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: 第五十二条 (Article 52) — address `art-52` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52 - e-Gov law ID: 322AC0000000054 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十二条 art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52 **第一項** 当事者は、第五十条第一項の規定による通知があつた時から意見聴取が終結する時までの間、公正取引委員会に対し、当該意見聴取に係る事件について公正取引委員会の認定した事実を立証する証拠の閲覧又は謄写（謄写については、当該証拠のうち、当該当事者若しくはその従業員が提出したもの又は当該当事者若しくはその従業員の供述を録取したものとして公正取引委員会規則で定めるものの謄写に限る。以下この条において同じ。）を求めることができる。この場合において、公正取引委員会は、第三者の利益を害するおそれがあるときその他正当な理由があるときでなければ、その閲覧又は謄写を拒むことができない。 art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-1 Between the time when notice of a hearing is given pursuant to Article 50, paragraph (1) and the time when the hearing is concluded, the party may submit a request to the Japan Fair Trade Commission to inspect or copy the evidence proving the facts found by the Japan Fair Trade Commission with respect to the case for hearing (as for copy, only limited to evidence prescribed by the Rules of the Japan Fair Trade Commission as one that was submitted by the relevant party or its employees or that records the statements of the relevant party or its employees; hereinafter the same applies in this Article). In this case, the Japan Fair Trade Commission may not refuse the inspection or copy unless this is likely to infringe on the interests of a third party or unless there are any other justifiable grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、当事者が、意見聴取の進行に応じて必要となつた証拠の閲覧又は謄写を更に求めることを妨げない。 art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the party from further requesting inspection or copy of the evidence, which becomes necessary in the course of the procedures for hearing. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of preceding paragraph do not preclude the party from further requesting inspection or copy of the evidence, which becomes necessary in the course of the procedures for hearing." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb **第三項** 公正取引委員会は、前二項の閲覧又は謄写について日時及び場所を指定することができる。 art-52/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-3 The Japan Fair Trade Commission may designate the date, time and place for inspection or copy set forth in the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52/par-1: 第五十条第一項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十条第一項 (Article 50, paragraph (1)), art-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-50/par-1 - art-52/par-1: この条 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十二条 (Article 52), art-52 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52 - art-52/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 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-1 - art-52/par-3: 前二項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-1 - art-52/par-3: 前二項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十二条第二項 (Article 52, paragraph (2)), art-52/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite 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 第五十条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-50/par-2/item-2 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-1 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-2 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-52/par-3 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第五十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-54/par-1 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十二条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-62/par-4 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十四条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-64/par-4 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-70-3/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-06 - 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 (私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律), Article 52, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb), 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