# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27) - Law: 不正競争防止法 (Unfair Competition Prevention Act), 平成五年法律第四十七号 - English title "Unfair Competition Prevention Act": 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（尋問等に係る事項の要領を記載した書面の提示命令） — address `art-27` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-27 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. --- ### 第二十七条（尋問等に係る事項の要領を記載した書面の提示命令） — (Order to Present Documents that Outline Matters for Examination) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-27 **第一項** 裁判所は、呼称等の決定をし、又は前条第一項の規定により尋問若しくは被告人の供述を求める手続を公判期日外においてする旨を定めるに当たり、必要があると認めるときは、検察官及び被告人又は弁護人に対し、訴訟関係人のすべき尋問若しくは陳述又は被告人に対する供述を求める行為に係る事項の要領を記載した書面の提示を命ずることができる。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-27/par-1 If the court finds it necessary to issue a ruling on a naming, etc., or to decide that the examination or the proceedings for asking statements from the accused will be conducted on a day other than the trial date, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the court may order the public prosecutor and the accused or defense counsel to present a document outlining the matters involved in the examination, the statements to be made by the persons concerned in the case, or the questions for the accused. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-27/par-1: 前条第一項 → 不正競争防止法 第二十六条第一項 (Article 26, paragraph (1)), art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-26/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 第三十一条第一項（最高裁判所規則への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-31/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 不正競争防止法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/405AC0000000047/20260521_507AC0000000039), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Unfair Competition Prevention Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4920/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 不正競争防止法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11