# 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 — 第八十二条 (Article 82) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-82. 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: 第八十二条 (Article 82) — address `art-82` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-82 - e-Gov law ID: 322AC0000000054 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八十二条 art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-82 **第一項** 秘密保持命令の申立てをした者又は秘密保持命令を受けた者は、訴訟記録の存する裁判所（訴訟記録の存する裁判所がない場合にあつては、秘密保持命令を発した裁判所）に対し、前条第一項に規定する要件を欠くこと又はこれを欠くに至つたことを理由として、秘密保持命令の取消しの申立てをすることができる。 art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-82/par-1 A petitioner for a protective order or a person to whom a protective order was issued may file a petition for rescission of the protective order with the court that retains the case record (if no such court exists, the court that issued the protective order) on the grounds that the requirements prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article have not been met or are no longer met. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A petitioner for a protective order or a person to whom a protective order was issued may file a petition for rescission of the protective order with the court that retains the case record (if no such court exists, the court that issued the protective order) on the grounds that the requirement prescribed in the preceding Article have not been met or are no longer met." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb **第二項** 秘密保持命令の取消しの申立てについての裁判があつた場合には、その電子決定書をその申立てをした者及び相手方に送達しなければならない。 art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-82/par-2 When the court makes a decision on a petition for rescission of a protective order, it must serve an electronic decision on the petitioner and the adverse party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 秘密保持命令の取消しの申立てについての裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-82/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-82/par-3 An immediate appeal may be lodged against a decision on the petition for rescission of a protective order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 秘密保持命令を取り消す裁判は、確定しなければその効力を生じない。 art-82/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-82/par-4 A decision to rescind a protective order must not take effect until the decision becomes final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 裁判所は、秘密保持命令を取り消す裁判をした場合において、秘密保持命令の取消しの申立てをした者又は相手方以外に当該秘密保持命令が発せられた訴訟において当該営業秘密に係る秘密保持命令を受けている者があるときは、その者に対し、直ちに、秘密保持命令を取り消す裁判をした旨を通知しなければならない。 art-82/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-82/par-5 When a court has rendered a decision to rescind a protective order, if the court had issued a protective order for the protection of the trade secret against any person other than the petitioner for rescission of the protective order or the adverse party during the same action in which the protective order was issued, the court must immediately notify the person of its decision to rescind the protective order. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a court has rendered a decision to dismiss a protective order, if the court had issued a protective order for the protection of the trade secret against any person other than the petitioner for rescission of the protective order or the adverse party during the same action in which the protective order was issued, the court must immediately notify the person of its decision to rescind the protective order." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb --- ## Cites - art-82/par-1: 前条第一項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第八十一条第一項 (Article 81, paragraph (1)), art-81/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/art-81/par-1 ## Cited by 2 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 附則第十五条第一項（文書提出命令の特則についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-4211-51/art-15/par-1 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 附則第三十四条第一項（私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-5041-48/art-34/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 82, paragraph (1) — 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 (私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律), Article 82, paragraph (5) — 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