# 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 — 第四十八条 (Article 48) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-48. 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48) — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条 art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-48 **第一項** 公正取引委員会は、事件について必要な調査をしたときは、その要旨を調書に記載し、かつ、特に前条第一項に規定する処分があつたときは、処分をした年月日及びその結果を明らかにしておかなければならない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-48/par-1 When the Japan Fair Trade Commission conducts the necessary investigations for a case, it must compile a record of the substance of the investigation, and when it takes a measure provided in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, it must clearly record the date on which the measure was taken and the results. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: 前条第一項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-47/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 附則第二条第三項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/suppl-4101-81/art-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