# 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 — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-3221-54/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-3221-54/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-3221-54/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-3221-54/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-3221-54/art-4 **第一項** 第五条の規定施行の際現に存する法人その他の団体で、一手買取及び一手販売の方法による資材若しくは製品の全部若しくは一部の配給の統制又は資材若しくは製品の全部若しくは一部の配給の割当を行うものの処置については、命令を以てこれを定める。 suppl-3221-54/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-3221-54/art-4/par-1 The disposition of a juridical person or other organization that exists at the time the provisions of Article 5 come into effect and that exercises control over the distribution of all or part of materials or products by the method of sole purchase and sole sale, or allocates the distribution of all or part of materials or products, is to be specified by order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-54/art-4/par-1: 第五条 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-3221-54/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-3221-54/art-5 ## 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 附則第十一条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/antimonopoly-act/suppl-3221-54/art-11/par-1/item-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch antimonopoly-act-20261106T060022-005, translated 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