# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-4051-47/art-7` - 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-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条 suppl-4051-47/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-7 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法第四条第一項から第三項まで又は第四条ノ二に規定する許可を受けている者は、それぞれ、新法第十六条第一項ただし書、第二項ただし書若しくは第三項ただし書又は第十七条ただし書に規定する許可を受けた者とみなす。 suppl-4051-47/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-7/par-1 A person that has obtained permission as prescribed in Article 4, paragraphs (1) through (3) or Article 4-2 of the former Act before this Act comes into effect is deemed to have obtained the permission respectively prescribed in the provisos of Article 16, paragraphs (1) through (3) or the proviso of Article 17 of the new Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4051-47/art-7/par-1: 新法第十六条第一項 → 不正競争防止法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-16/par-1 - suppl-4051-47/art-7/par-1: 第二項 → 不正競争防止法 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-16/par-2 - suppl-4051-47/art-7/par-1: 第三項 → 不正競争防止法 第十六条第三項 (Article 16, paragraph (3)), art-16/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-16/par-3 - suppl-4051-47/art-7/par-1: 第十七条 → 不正競争防止法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-17 ## 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