# 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 — 第七十条の八 (Article 70-8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8. 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: 第七十条の八 (Article 70-8) — address `art-70-8` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8 - e-Gov law ID: 322AC0000000054 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十条の八 art-70-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8 **第一項** 公正取引委員会は、次に掲げる場合には、公示送達をすることができる。 art-70-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-1 The Japan Fair Trade Commission may make service by publication in the following cases: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 送達を受けるべき者の住所、居所その他送達をすべき場所が知れない場合 art-70-8/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-1/item-1 if the domicile, residence or other place where the would-be service recipient should be served is unknown; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 外国においてすべき送達について、前条において読み替えて準用する民事訴訟法第百八条の規定によることができず、又はこれによつても送達をすることができないと認めるべき場合 art-70-8/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-1/item-2 for service that should be made in a foreign country, if the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article following the deemed replacement of terms cannot be applied, or if it is recognized that service cannot be made based on the provisions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前条において読み替えて準用する民事訴訟法第百八条の規定により外国の管轄官庁に嘱託を発した後六月を経過してもその送達を証する書面の送付がない場合 art-70-8/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-1/item-3 if documents certifying that service was made are not received, after the lapse of six months from the date on which a competent foreign government agency was commissioned to make service pursuant to the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article following the deemed replacement of terms. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公示送達は、送達すべき書類を送達を受けるべき者にいつでも交付すべき旨を公正取引委員会規則で定める方法により不特定多数の者が閲覧することができる状態に置くとともに、その旨が記載された書面を公正取引委員会の掲示場に掲示し、又はその旨を公正取引委員会の事務所に設置した電子計算機の映像面に表示したものの閲覧をすることができる状態に置く措置をとることにより行う。 art-70-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-2 Service by publication is made by making it possible for an unspecified number of people to inspect the fact that the documents to be served are to be delivered at any time to the person who is to be served, by a method prescribed by the Rules of the Japan Fair Trade Commission, and also by posting a document stating that fact on the posting area of the Japan Fair Trade Commission, or by taking measures to make it possible for a person to inspect a display of that fact on the screen of a computer installed in the office of the Japan Fair Trade Commission. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 公示送達は、前項の規定による措置を開始した日から二週間を経過することによつて、その効力を生ずる。 art-70-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-3 Service by publication takes effect after two weeks from the date on which the measures under the provisions of the preceding paragraph began. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 外国においてすべき送達についてした公示送達にあつては、前項の期間は、六週間とする。 art-70-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-4 Regarding service by publication in lieu of service to be made in a foreign country, the time period set forth in the preceding paragraph is six weeks. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-70-8/par-1/item-2: 前条 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条の七 (Article 70-7), art-70-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-7 - art-70-8/par-1/item-2: 民事訴訟法第百八条 → 民事訴訟法 第百八条 (Article 108), art-108 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-108 (e-Gov law ID 408AC0000000109) - art-70-8/par-1/item-3: 前条 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条の七 (Article 70-7), art-70-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-7 - art-70-8/par-1/item-3: 民事訴訟法第百八条 → 民事訴訟法 第百八条 (Article 108), art-108 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-108 (e-Gov law ID 408AC0000000109) - art-70-8/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 第七十条の八第二項 (Article 70-8, paragraph (2)), art-70-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-2 - art-70-8/par-4: 前項 → 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条の八第三項 (Article 70-8, paragraph (3)), art-70-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律 第十条第一項（私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/freelance-act/art-10/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 505AC0000000025) - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条の八第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-3 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 第七十条の八第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/art-70-8/par-4 - 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律 附則第二条第一項第一号（公示送達等の方法に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/antimonopoly-act/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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