# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（経過措置） — address `suppl-4051-47/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（経過措置） — (Transitional Measures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4051-47/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-2 **第一項** 改正後の不正競争防止法（以下「新法」という。）の規定は、特別の定めがある場合を除いては、この法律の施行前に生じた事項にも適用する。ただし、改正前の不正競争防止法（以下「旧法」という。）によって生じた効力を妨げない。 suppl-4051-47/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-2/par-1 Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act after its amendment (referred to as "new Act" below) also apply to matters that arose before this Act came into effect; provided, however, that this does not preclude any effect that had arisen based on the Unfair Competition Prevention Act prior to its amendment (referred to as "former Act" below). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 附則第十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-14/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