# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4271-54/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4271-54/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4271-54/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4271-54/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4271-54/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4271-54/art-3 **第一項** 旧法第三条第一項の規定による侵害の停止又は予防を請求する権利の旧法第十五条後段に規定する期間がこの法律の施行の際既に経過していた場合については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4271-54/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4271-54/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4271-54/art-3/par-1 In the case where the period prescribed in the latter part of Article 15 of the former Act for the right to claim the suspension or prevention of infringement under Article 3, paragraph (1) of the former Act had already elapsed at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 附則第五条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4271-54/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4271-54/art-5/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-20261011T031431-003, 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