# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4081-68` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4081-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4081-68 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成八年六月一二日法律第六八号 suppl-4081-68 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4081-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4081-68 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-68/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4081-68/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4081-68/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成九年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4081-68/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4081-68/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4081-68/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1997; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第一条中商標法第四条第一項第二号及び第五号の改正規定、同法第九条第一項の改正規定、同法第九条の二の前に見出しを付す改正規定、同法第九条の二の次に一条を加える改正規定、同法第十三条第一項の改正規定並びに同法第五十三条の二の改正規定並びに第六条の規定　商標法条約が日本国について効力を生ずる日 suppl-4081-68/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4081-68/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4081-68/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Article 1 that amend Article 4, paragraph (1), items (ii) and (v) of the Trademark Act, the provisions that amend Article 9, paragraph (1) of the same Act, the provisions that add a heading before Article 9-2 of the same Act, the provisions that add one Article after Article 9-2 of the same Act, the provisions that amend Article 13, paragraph (1) of the same Act, and the provisions that amend Article 53-2 of the same Act, and the provisions of Article 6: the date on which the Trademark Law Treaty takes effect for Japan. machine translation, not official ### 第二十一条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-68/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4081-68/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4081-68/art-21 **第一項** 附則第二条から前条までに定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-4081-68/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4081-68/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4081-68/art-21/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4081-68/art-1/par-1/item-1: 同法第九条の二 → e-Gov law 334AC0000000127, 第九条の二 (Article 9-2), art-9-2 — not held in this collection --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch unfair-competition-prevention-act-20261011T031431-002, 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