# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)（不正競争防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5071-39/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（不正競争防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-39/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-15 **第一項** 第三号施行日から施行日の前日までの間における第二十二条の規定（附則第一条第三号に規定する改正規定に限る。）による改正後の不正競争防止法第二十六条第二項の規定の適用については、同項中「記載し、又は記録した書面又は電磁的記録」とあるのは「記載した書面」と、「提供させた電磁的記録」とあるのは「提供させた電磁的記録を記録した記録媒体」とする。 suppl-5071-39/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-15/par-1 With regard to the application of Article 26, paragraph (2) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act as amended by the provisions of Article 22 (limited to the amending provisions prescribed in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions) during the period from the item (iii) Effective Date to the day before the Effective Date, the phrase "documents or electronic or magnetic records which contain or record" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "documents which contain", and the phrase "electronic or magnetic records provided" is deemed to be replaced with "recording media on which electronic or magnetic records provided are recorded". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-39/art-15/par-1: 附則第一条第三号 → 不正競争防止法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-3 - suppl-5071-39/art-15/par-1: 不正競争防止法第二十六条第二項 → 不正競争防止法 第二十六条第二項 (Article 26, paragraph (2)), art-26/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-26/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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-20261011T031431-006, 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