Supplementary Provisions, Article 6Transitional Measures Concerning Minimum Age
第六条（最低年齢に関する経過措置）
With regard to a disposition granting or denying permission on an application for permission to employ a child 12 years of age (excluding an application concerning an occupation in a business of motion picture production or theatrical performance) that was filed before the provisions amending Article 56, paragraph (2) (limited to the part replacing "12 years of age" with "13 years of age"; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) come into effect and on which no disposition granting or denying permission has been made at the time the provisions amending Article 56, paragraph (2) come into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
第五十六条第二項の改正規定（「満十二才」を「満十三歳」に改める部分に限る。以下この条において同じ。）の施行前にされた満十二歳の児童を使用する許可の申請（映画の製作又は演劇の事業に係る職業に係る申請を除く。）であって、第五十六条第二項の改正規定の施行の際に許可又は不許可の処分がされていないものについての許可又は不許可の処分については、なお従前の例による。
With regard to the employment of a child in the case where permission under the provisions of Article 56, paragraph (2) of the former Act was obtained before the provisions amending Article 56, paragraph (2) come into effect (including the case where the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph was obtained pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph), the provisions then in force continue to govern.
With regard to an occupation specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, from among the occupations prescribed in Article 56, paragraph (2) of the new Act, in consideration of the actual state of work of children 12 years of age, the social necessity of the business in which those children work and the difficulty of securing replacement personnel for that business, if the permission of the administrative agency is obtained by the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a child 12 years of age may be employed outside the child's school hours until the child reaches 13 years of age. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 57, paragraph (2), Article 60, paragraph (2) and Article 61, paragraph (5), the term "child" in Article 57, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "child (including a child employed pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 112 of 1998); the same applies in Article 60, paragraph (2) and Article 61, paragraph (5))".
新法第五十六条第二項に規定する職業のうち、満十二歳の児童の就労実態、当該児童の就労に係る事業の社会的必要性及び当該事業の代替要員の確保の困難性を考慮して厚生労働省令で定める職業については、厚生労働省令で定める日までに行政官庁の許可を受けたときは、満十二歳の児童をその者が満十三歳に達するまでの間、その者の修学時間外に使用することができる。この場合において、第五十七条第二項、第六十条第二項及び第六十一条第五項の規定の適用については、第五十七条第二項中「児童」とあるのは、「児童（労働基準法の一部を改正する法律（平成十年法律第百十二号）附則第六条第三項の規定により使用する児童を含む。第六十条第二項及び第六十一条第五項において同じ。）」とする。