# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) — address `suppl-4051-47/art-6` - 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-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条 suppl-4051-47/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-6 **第一項** 第十四条の規定は、この法律の施行前に開始した第二条第一項第二号又は第二十号に掲げる行為に該当するもの（同項第一号に掲げる行為に該当するものを除く。）を継続する行為については、適用しない。 suppl-4051-47/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-6/par-1 The provisions of Article 14 do not apply to the continuation of an act that commenced before this Act comes into effect and falls under an act stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (xx) (excluding an act that falls under item (i) of the same paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4051-47/art-6/par-1: 第十四条 → 不正競争防止法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-14 - suppl-4051-47/art-6/par-1: 第二条第一項第二号 → 不正競争防止法 第二条第一項第二号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-2/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4051-47/art-6/par-1: 同項第一号 → 不正競争防止法 第二条第一項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-2/par-1/item-1 ## 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