# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4061-116/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4061-116/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4061-116/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4061-116/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4061-116/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4061-116/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成七年七月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4061-116/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4061-116/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4061-116/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on July 1, 1995; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第一条中特許法第三十条第三項の改正規定、第五条の規定（商標法第十条第三項、第十三条第一項、第四十四条第二項及び第六十三条の二の改正規定を除く。）及び第九条の規定　平成七年七月一日又は世界貿易機関を設立するマラケシュ協定が日本国について効力を生ずる日（以下「発効日」という。）のいずれか遅い日 suppl-4061-116/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4061-116/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4061-116/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Article 1 that amend Article 30, paragraph (3) of the Patent Act, the provisions of Article 5 (excluding the provisions that amend Article 10, paragraph (3), Article 13, paragraph (1), Article 44, paragraph (2), and Article 63-2 of the Trademark Act), and the provisions of Article 9: the later of July 1, 1995 or the date on which the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization takes effect for Japan (hereinafter referred to as the "date of entry into force"). machine translation, not official --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch unfair-competition-prevention-act-20261011T031431-001, translated 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