# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第三十五条 (Article 35) - Law: 不正競争防止法 (Unfair Competition Prevention Act), 平成五年法律第四十七号 - English title "Unfair Competition Prevention Act": 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: 第三十五条 (Article 35)（没収保全命令） — address `art-35` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十五条（没収保全命令） — (Order for the Direct Freezing of Assets) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35 **第一項** 裁判所は、第二十一条第一項、第二項、第四項（第四号を除く。）、第五項及び第六項の罪に係る被告事件に関し、同条第十三項の規定により没収することができる財産に当たると思料するに足りる相当な理由があり、かつ、当該財産を没収するため必要があると認めるときは、検察官の請求により、又は職権で、没収保全命令を発して、当該財産につき、その処分を禁止することができる。 art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-1 In cases under public prosecution concerning the offences prescribed in Article 21, paragraphs (1), (2), (4) (excluding item (iv)), (5) and (6), if a court finds probable cause to believe that the relevant assets fall under those that may be confiscated pursuant to paragraph (13) of the same Article, and that confiscation is necessary, the court may issue an order for the direct freezing of assets to prohibit the disposition of the assets, either at the request of a public prosecutor or by its own authority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、地上権、抵当権その他の権利がその上に存在する財産について没収保全命令を発した場合又は発しようとする場合において、当該権利が没収により消滅すると思料するに足りる相当な理由がある場合であって当該財産を没収するため必要があると認めるとき、又は当該権利が仮装のものであると思料するに足りる相当の理由があると認めるときは、検察官の請求により、又は職権で、附帯保全命令を別に発して、当該権利の処分を禁止することができる。 art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-2 If a court has issued or intends to issue an order for the direct freezing of assets with respect to assets encumbered by superficies, a mortgage, or any other rights, and if the court finds probable cause to believe that these rights will be extinguished through confiscation and that confiscation is necessary, or if the court finds probable cause to believe that the rights have been falsified, the court may issue an incidental freezing order separately to prohibit the disposition of the rights, either at the request of a public prosecutor or by its own authority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 裁判官は、前二項に規定する理由及び必要があると認めるときは、公訴が提起される前であっても、検察官又は司法警察員（警察官たる司法警察員については、国家公安委員会又は都道府県公安委員会が指定する警部以上の者に限る。）の請求により、前二項に規定する処分をすることができる。 art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-3 If a judge finds that there are the grounds and necessity prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, even before the institution of prosecution, the judge may conduct the disposition prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs at the request of a public prosecutor or a judicial police officer (with regard to judicial police officers that are police officers, limited to a person designated by the National Public Safety Commission or the Prefectural Public Safety Commission as those with the rank of police inspector or with a higher rank). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前三項に定めるもののほか、これらの規定による処分については、組織的犯罪処罰法第四章第一節及び第三節の規定による没収保全命令及び附帯保全命令による処分の禁止の例による。 art-35/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-4 Beyond the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, the disposition under these provisions is governed by the provisions regarding the prohibition of disposition under the order for the direct freezing of assets or the incidental freezing order, as prescribed in Chapter IV, Sections 1 and 3 of the Organized Crime Punishment Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35/par-1: 第二十一条第一項 → 不正競争防止法 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-21/par-1 - art-35/par-1: 第二項 → 不正競争防止法 第二十一条第二項 (Article 21, paragraph (2)), art-21/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-21/par-2 - art-35/par-1: 第四項 → 不正競争防止法 第二十一条第四項 (Article 21, paragraph (4)), art-21/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-21/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-21/par-4 - art-35/par-1: 第四号 → 不正競争防止法 第二十一条第四項第四号 (Article 21, paragraph (4), item (iv)), art-21/par-4/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-21/par-4/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-21/par-4/item-4 - art-35/par-1: 第五項 → 不正競争防止法 第二十一条第五項 (Article 21, paragraph (5)), art-21/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-21/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-21/par-5 - art-35/par-1: 第六項 → 不正競争防止法 第二十一条第六項 (Article 21, paragraph (6)), art-21/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-21/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-21/par-6 - art-35/par-1: 同条第十三項 → 不正競争防止法 第二十一条第十三項 (Article 21, paragraph (13)), art-21/par-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-21/par-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-21/par-13 - art-35/par-3: 前二項 → 不正競争防止法 第三十五条第一項 (Article 35, paragraph (1)), art-35/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-1 - art-35/par-3: 前二項 → 不正競争防止法 第三十五条第二項 (Article 35, paragraph (2)), art-35/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-2 - art-35/par-4: 前三項 → 不正競争防止法 第三十五条第一項 (Article 35, paragraph (1)), art-35/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-1 - art-35/par-4: 前三項 → 不正競争防止法 第三十五条第二項 (Article 35, paragraph (2)), art-35/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-2 - art-35/par-4: 前三項 → 不正競争防止法 第三十五条第三項 (Article 35, paragraph (3)), art-35/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 第三十五条第三項（没収保全命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-3 - 不正競争防止法 第三十五条第四項（没収保全命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-35/par-4 - 不正競争防止法 第三十七条第一項第六号（共助の実施） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-37/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-37/par-1/item-6 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 不正競争防止法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/405AC0000000047/20260521_507AC0000000039), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Unfair Competition Prevention Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4920/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 不正競争防止法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11