# 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 — 第七十一条 (Article 71) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-71. 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: 第七十一条 (Article 71) — address `art-71` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-71 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条 art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-71 **第一項** 公正取引委員会は、特定の事業分野における特定の取引方法を第二条第九項第六号の規定により指定しようとするときは、当該特定の取引方法を用いる事業者と同種の事業を営む事業者の意見を聴き、かつ、公聴会を開いて一般の意見を求め、これらの意見を十分に考慮した上で、これをしなければならない。 art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-71/par-1 If the Japan Fair Trade Commission seeks to designate specific trade practices in a specific field of business pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (9), item (vi), it is first to hear the opinions of enterprises that are engaged in the same type of business as the enterprises who employ the relevant specific trade practices and hold a public hearing to obtain the opinions of the public, and then must make the designation after due consideration of the opinions presented. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-71/par-1: 第二条第九項第六号 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第二条第九項第六号 (Article 2, paragraph (9), item (vi)), art-2/par-9/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-2/par-9/item-6 ## 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 附則第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-3281-259/par-5 --- ## 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