# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（証拠書類の朗読方法の特例） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（証拠書類の朗読方法の特例） — (Special Provisions on the Manner of Reading Out Documentary Evidence) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-28 **第一項** 秘匿決定があったときは、刑事訴訟法第三百五条第一項若しくは第二項の規定による証拠書類の朗読又は同法第三百七条の二第一項若しくは第二項の規定による電磁的記録の内容の朗読は、営業秘密構成情報特定事項を明らかにしない方法でこれを行うものとする。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-28/par-1 If a protective ruling has been issued, the reading out of documentary evidence under the provisions of Article 305, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, or the reading out of the contents of an electronic or magnetic record under the provisions of Article 307-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the same Code, must be done in a manner that does not reveal the matter allowing trade secrets to be identified. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-28/par-1: 刑事訴訟法第三百五条第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第三百五条第一項 (Article 305, paragraph (1)), art-305/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-28/par-1: 第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第三百五条第二項 (Article 305, paragraph (2)), art-305/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-28/par-1: 同法第三百七条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第三百七条の二第一項 (Article 307-2, paragraph (1)), art-307-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-28/par-1: 第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第三百七条の二第二項 (Article 307-2, paragraph (2)), art-307-2/par-2 — not held in this collection ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch unfair-competition-prevention-act-20261011T031431-001, translated 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