# 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 — 第六十九条 (Article 69) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69. 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: 第六十九条 (Article 69) — address `art-69` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69 - e-Gov law ID: 322AC0000000054 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十九条 art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69 **第一項** 公正取引委員会は、課徴金をその納期限までに納付しない者があるときは、督促状により期限を指定してその納付を督促しなければならない。 art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-1 If any person fails to pay a surcharge by the time limit for payment, the Japan Fair Trade Commission must demand the payment by serving a written demand designating a time limit for the payment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公正取引委員会は、前項の規定による督促をしたときは、その督促に係る課徴金の額につき年十四・五パーセントを超えない範囲内において政令で定める割合で、納期限の翌日からその納付の日までの日数により計算した延滞金を徴収することができる。ただし、延滞金の額が千円未満であるときは、この限りでない。 art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-2 The Japan Fair Trade Commission may collect delinquency charges calculated at a rate specified by Cabinet Order, not exceeding fourteen point five percent per annum of the amount of the surcharge, for the number of days intervening between the next day of the time limit for payment and the day of payment when it demanded payment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph provided, however, that this does not apply if the delinquency charges involved are less than one thousand yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定により計算した延滞金の額に百円未満の端数があるときは、その端数は、切り捨てる。 art-69/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-3 If the amount of delinquency charges, calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, includes numbers to the right of the hundreds place, the delinquency charges are rounded down to the nearest hundred yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 公正取引委員会は、第一項の規定による督促を受けた者がその指定する期限までにその納付すべき金額を納付しないときは、国税滞納処分の例により、その督促に係る課徴金及び第二項に規定する延滞金を徴収することができる。 art-69/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-4 If a person upon whom a demand has been served under the provisions of paragraph (1) fails to make the payment by the designated time limit, the Japan Fair Trade Commission may collect the surcharge related to the demand and delinquency charges under the provisions of paragraph (2) pursuant to a disposition of the national tax delinquency. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a person upon whom a demand has been served under the provisions of paragraph (1) fails to make the payment by the designated time limit, the Japan Fair Trade Commission may collect the surcharge to the demand and delinquency charges under the provisions of paragraph (2) pursuant to a disposition of the national tax delinquency." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb **第五項** 前項の規定による徴収金の先取特権の順位は、国税及び地方税に次ぐものとし、その時効については、国税の例による。 art-69/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-5 A statutory lien for a payment to be collected pursuant to the preceding paragraph follows national and local taxes in priority, and the period of prescription for payment follows the rules for national tax. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-69/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 第六十九条第一項 (Article 69, paragraph (1)), art-69/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-1 - art-69/par-3: 前項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十九条第二項 (Article 69, paragraph (2)), art-69/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-2 - art-69/par-4: 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 第六十九条第一項 (Article 69, paragraph (1)), art-69/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-1 - art-69/par-4: 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 第六十九条第二項 (Article 69, paragraph (2)), art-69/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-2 - art-69/par-5: 前項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十九条第四項 (Article 69, paragraph (4)), art-69/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-4 ## Cited by 7 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 第六十三条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-63/par-5 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-2 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-3 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十九条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-4 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十九条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-69/par-5 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-70/par-3 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 附則第二条第一項（延滞金に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-5011-45/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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 69, paragraph (4) — 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