# 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 — 第二十六条 (Article 26) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-26. 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26) — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-26 - e-Gov law ID: 322AC0000000054 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十六条 art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-26 **第一項** 前条の規定による損害賠償の請求権は、第四十九条に規定する排除措置命令（排除措置命令がされなかつた場合にあつては、第六十二条第一項に規定する納付命令（第八条第一号又は第二号の規定に違反する行為をした事業者団体の構成事業者に対するものを除く。））が確定した後でなければ、裁判上主張することができない。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-26/par-1 The right to claim damages under the provisions of the preceding Article may not be asserted in court until the cease and desist order provided for in the provisions of Article 49 (if no such order has been issued, the payment order provided in Article 62, paragraph (1) (excluding those issued against an enterprise that constitutes a trade association that has committed an act in violation of the provisions of Article 8, item (i) or (ii))) has become final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The right to claim damages under to the provisions of the preceding Article may not be asserted in court until the cease and desist order provided for in the provisions of Article 49 (if no such order has been issued, the payment order provided in Article 62, paragraph (1) (excluding those issued against an enterprise that constitutes a trade association that has committed an act in violation of the provisions of Article 8, item (i) or (ii))) has become final and binding." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb **第二項** 前項の請求権は、同項の排除措置命令又は納付命令が確定した日から三年を経過したときは、時効によつて消滅する。 art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-26/par-2 The right set forth in the preceding paragraph expires by prescription after a lapse of three years from the date on which the cease and desist order or the payment order set forth in the paragraph became final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1: 前条 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第二十五条 (Article 25), art-25 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-25 - art-26/par-1: 第四十九条 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第四十九条 (Article 49), art-49 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-49 - art-26/par-1: 第六十二条第一項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十二条第一項 (Article 62, paragraph (1)), art-62/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-62/par-1 - art-26/par-1: 第八条第一号 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第八条第一項第一号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-8/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-8/par-1/item-1 - art-26/par-1: 第二号 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第八条第一項第二号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-8/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-8/par-1/item-2 - art-26/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 第二十六条第一項 (Article 26, paragraph (1)), art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-26/par-1 ## 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 第八条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-8-2/par-3 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第二十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-26/par-2 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 附則第七条第一項（審決及び納付命令に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/suppl-4171-35/art-7/par-1 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 附則第七条第二項（審決及び納付命令に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/suppl-4171-35/art-7/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-06 - 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 (私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律), Article 26, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5212/tb), 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