# 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-4271-54/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-4271-54/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4271-54/art-2
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### 第二条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4271-54/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4271-54/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4271-54/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この法律による改正後の不正競争防止法第五条の二の規定は、この法律の施行前にこの法律による改正前の不正競争防止法（以下「旧法」という。）第二条第一項第四号、第五号又は第八号に規定する行為（旧法第二条第六項に規定する営業秘密を取得する行為に限る。）があった場合における当該営業秘密を取得する行為をした者については、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4271-54/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4271-54/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4271-54/art-2/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 5-2 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act as amended by this Act do not apply to a person who has committed the act of acquiring that trade secret in the case where, before this Act comes into effect, there was an act prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iv), (v) or (viii) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act prior to the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former Act") (limited to an act of acquiring a trade secret prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the former Act).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4271-54/art-2/par-1: 不正競争防止法第五条の二 → 不正競争防止法 第五条の二 (Article 5-2), art-5-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-5-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-5-2

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 不正競争防止法 附則第五条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4271-54/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4271-54/art-5/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-20261011T031431-003, 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
