# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第四十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 41) - 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: 第四十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 41)（映像等の送受信による通話に係る取組の推進） — address `suppl-5071-39/art-41` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-41 - 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. --- ### 第四十一条（映像等の送受信による通話に係る取組の推進） — Promotion of Efforts Concerning Communication by Transmission and Reception of Video and Other Data caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-39/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-41 **第一項** 政府は、被告人又は被疑者（以下「被告人等」という。）にとって、弁護人又は弁護人を選任することができる者の依頼により弁護人となろうとする者（弁護士でない者にあっては、刑事訴訟法第三十一条第二項の許可があった後に限る。）（以下「弁護人等」という。）の援助を受けることが重要であることに鑑み、同法第三十九条第一項の規定による接見のほかに、身体の拘束を受けている被告人等と弁護人等との間における映像と音声の送受信による通話を可能とするための運用上の措置について、地域の実情を踏まえ、被告人等と弁護人等との間の秘密の確保に配慮するとともに不正行為等の防止に万全を期しつつ、必要な取組を推進するものとする。 suppl-5071-39/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-41/par-1 In light of the importance for an accused or a suspect (hereinafter referred to as the "accused, etc.") of receiving the assistance of counsel or of a person who intends to become counsel at the request of a person entitled to appoint counsel (in the case of a person who is not an attorney, limited to after the permission set forth in Article 31, paragraph (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been granted) (hereinafter referred to as "counsel, etc."), the Government is to promote the necessary efforts concerning operational measures to enable communication by the transmission and reception of video and audio between an accused, etc. who is in physical custody and counsel, etc., in addition to interviews under the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (1) of the same Code, taking into account regional circumstances, giving consideration to ensuring confidentiality between the accused, etc. and counsel, etc., and making every effort to prevent misconduct and other such acts. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-39/art-41/par-1: 刑事訴訟法第三十一条第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第三十一条第二項 (Article 31, paragraph (2)), art-31/par-2 — not held in this collection - suppl-5071-39/art-41/par-1: 同法第三十九条第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch unfair-competition-prevention-act-20261011T031431-006, 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