# 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 — 第五十三条 (Article 53) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-53. 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: 第五十三条 (Article 53) — address `art-53` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-53 - 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. --- ### 第五十三条 art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-53 **第一項** 意見聴取は、公正取引委員会が事件ごとに指定するその職員（以下「指定職員」という。）が主宰する。 art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-53/par-1 The procedures for hearing is presided by the staff member designated by the Japan Fair Trade Commission for each case (hereinafter referred to as the "designated staff member"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公正取引委員会は、前項に規定する事件について審査官の職務を行つたことのある職員その他の当該事件の調査に関する事務に従事したことのある職員を意見聴取を主宰する職員として指定することができない。 art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-53/par-2 The Japan Fair Trade Commission may not designate any staff member who performed the duties of an investigator with respect to the case pursuant to the preceding paragraph and any other staff members who conducted the administrative affairs pertaining to investigations into the relevant case as the presiding staff member for hearing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-53/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 第五十三条第一項 (Article 53, paragraph (1)), art-53/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-53/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 第五十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-53/par-2 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十二条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-62/par-4 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第六十四条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-64/par-4 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-3/par-2 --- ## 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