# 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 / Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade — 第百十四条 (Article 114) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 (Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade), 昭和二十二年法律第五十四号 - English title "Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade": 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: 第百十四条 (Article 114) — address `art-114` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114 - e-Gov law ID: 322AC0000000054 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第百十四条 art-114 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114 **第一項** 公正取引委員会は、領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について留置の必要がなくなつたときは、その返還を受けるべき者にこれを還付しなければならない。 art-114/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114/par-1 After an object retained, seized, or seized by ordering records no longer needs to be held in custody, the Japan Fair Trade Commission must return the object to the person to whom it should be returned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公正取引委員会は、前項の領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件の返還を受けるべき者の住所若しくは居所がわからないため、又はその他の事由によりこれを還付することができない場合においては、その旨を公告しなければならない。 art-114/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114/par-2 If the Japan Fair Trade Commission cannot return an object that is retained, seized, or seized by ordering records set forth in the preceding paragraph because it does not know the domicile or residence of the person to whom the object should be returned or because of another reason, the Japan Fair Trade Commission must issue a public notice to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の公告に係る領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について、公告の日から六月を経過しても還付の請求がないときは、これらの物件は、国庫に帰属する。 art-114/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114/par-3 If no request is made for the return of an object retained, seized, or seized by ordering records regarding which a public notice has been issued pursuant to the preceding paragraph after six months have elapsed since the day of the public notice, the object belongs to the national treasury. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-114/par-2: 前項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第百十四条第一項 (Article 114, paragraph (1)), art-114/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114/par-1 - art-114/par-3: 前項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第百十四条第二項 (Article 114, paragraph (2)), art-114/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第百十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114/par-2 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第百十四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114/par-3 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第百十四条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114-2/par-2 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第百十四条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-114-2/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000054/20260521_505AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06