# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-4051-47/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-4051-47/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-5 **第一項** 新法第七条の規定は、この法律の施行後に提起された訴えについて適用し、この法律の施行前に提起された訴えについては、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4051-47/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-5/par-1 The provisions of Article 7 of the new Act apply to litigation filed after this Act comes into effect, and prior laws continue to govern litigation filed before this Act comes into effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4051-47/art-5/par-1: 新法第七条 → 不正競争防止法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-7 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 附則第十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-14/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