Supplementary Provisions, Article 11Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions
第十一条(罰則の適用に関する経過措置)
The provisions then in force continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to conduct in which a person engages before the New Act comes into force.
新法の施行前にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
the New Actmachine translation
「新法」
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Personal Status Litigation Act (Act No. 109 of 2003), that Act itself, as distinct from the earlier 1898 law on personal status proceedings (人事訴訟手続法, Act No. 13 of 1898) that Article 2 of those provisions repealed.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)