A petition, request, or other statement made to the court (hereinafter in this paragraph, Article 12 and Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions referred to as a "petition, etc.") that pertains to a pre-effective-date protection case (meaning a protection case pertaining to a notification under Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Juveniles Act or a report under Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act made before the Effective Date, a protection case referred before the Effective Date by a public prosecutor, a judicial police officer, a police officer, a prefectural governor or a child guidance center's director, and a protection case transferred pursuant to Article 55 of that Act before the Effective Date; the same applies below) or a protection case before the specified date (meaning a protection case prescribed by the Supreme Court that pertains to a notification under Article 6, paragraph (1) of that Act or a report under Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act made before the specified date, one referred before the specified date by a public prosecutor, a judicial police officer, a police officer, a prefectural governor or a child guidance center's director, and one transferred pursuant to Article 55 of that Act before the specified date; the same applies below in this paragraph and the following Article) is not subject to Articles 5-4 and 5-5 of the Juveniles Act as amended by the provisions of Article 5 of this Act (excluding the amending provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions); provided, however, that this does not apply to a petition, etc. made on or after the Effective Date (or, where the trial and decision come to be conducted jointly after the Effective Date, on or after that time) in the case where a trial and decision on a pre-effective-date protection case or a protection case before the specified date and on a protection case other than those cases are conducted jointly.
No English for the wording before the change.
申立て、請求その他の裁判所に対してする申述（以下この項並びに附則第十二条及び第十八条第一項において「申立て等」という。）であって、施行前保護事件（施行日前にされた少年法第六条第一項の規定による通告又は同法第七条第一項の規定による報告に係る保護事件、施行日前に検察官、司法警察員、警察官、都道府県知事又は児童相談所長から送致された保護事件及び施行日前に同法第五十五条の規定により移送された保護事件をいう。以下同じ。）又は特定日前保護事件（最高裁判所の定める保護事件であって、特定日前にされた同法第六条第一項の規定による通告又は同法第七条第一項の規定による報告に係るもの、特定日前に検察官、司法警察員、警察官、都道府県知事又は児童相談所長から送致されたもの及び特定日前に同法第五十五条の規定により移送されたものをいう。以下この項及び次条において同じ。）に係るものについては、第五条の規定（附則第一条第三号に掲げる改正規定を除く。）による改正後の少年法第五条の四及び第五条の五の規定は、適用しない。ただし、施行前保護事件又は特定日前保護事件とこれらの事件以外の保護事件の審判を併せて行う場合における施行日以後（施行日後に併せて行うこととなった場合にあっては、それ以後）の申立て等については、この限りでない。