# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第三十八条 (Article 38) - 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: 第三十八条 (Article 38)（追徴とみなす没収） — address `art-38` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-38 - 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. 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. --- ### 第三十八条（追徴とみなす没収） — (Confiscation Considered to Be the Collection of Equivalent Value) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-38 **第一項** 第二十一条第十三項各号に掲げる財産に代えて、その価額が当該財産の価額に相当する財産であって当該裁判を受けた者が有するものを没収する確定裁判の執行に係る共助の要請にあっては、当該確定裁判は、この法律による共助の実施については、その者から当該財産の価額を追徴する確定裁判とみなす。 art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-38/par-1 In cases where assistance is requested for the enforcement of a final and binding decision to confiscate assets held by a person subject to the judicial decision, which are of equivalent value to the assets stated in each item of Article 21, paragraph (13), in lieu of the assets stated in that item, that final and binding decision is deemed to be a final and binding decision to collect the value of the assets from the person, in providing assistance pursuant to this Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、第二十一条第十三項各号に掲げる財産に代えて、その価額が当該財産の価額に相当する財産を没収するための保全に係る共助の要請について準用する。 art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-38/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a request for assistance in the freezing of assets related to confiscation, where the value of the assets is equivalent to that of the assets stated in each item of Article 21, paragraph (13), in lieu of the assets stated in that item. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-38/par-1: 第二十一条第十三項 → 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-38/par-2: 前項 → 不正競争防止法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-38/par-1 - art-38/par-2: 第二十一条第十三項 → 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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 第三十八条第二項（追徴とみなす没収） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-38/par-2 - 不正競争防止法 第四十条第一項（組織的犯罪処罰法による共助等の例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-40/par-1 --- ## 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