# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)

- 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: 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4061-116/art-13`
- 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-13
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4061-116/art-13
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### 第十三条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4061-116/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4061-116/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4061-116/art-13</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の各改正規定の施行前にした行為及びこの附則の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる事項に係るこの法律の各改正規定の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、それぞれなお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4061-116/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4061-116/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4061-116/art-13/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the enforcement of each amending provision of this Act, and to acts committed after the enforcement of each amending provision of this Act that relate to matters for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern respectively.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## 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-4061-116/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4061-116/art-14/par-1

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## 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
