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公布
The official publication of a law or amendment once it has been made, in the Official Gazette (官報), so that anyone can know what it says. A law cannot bind anyone before it is prom…
Written by AI using 官報の発行に関する法律, Art. 3 and Wikipedia: 公布 as a reference.
憲法
The highest law in Japan. Every Act, Cabinet Order and Ministerial Order has to conform to it, and anything in conflict with it has no legal force. It is also the hardest law to ch…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 96, 98, e-Gov: 日本国憲法 and its revision history and Wikipedia: Constitution of Japan as a reference.
法律としての効力を有する命令
Some rules made during the Allied occupation were issued as Cabinet Orders, as orders implementing Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and an Act passed in 1952 gave the…
Written by AI using Act No. 126 of 1952, Art. 4, e-Gov: 出入国管理及び難民認定法 and its revision history and Wikipedia (Japanese): 出入国管理及び難民認定法 as a reference.
法令番号
The official identifier a law receives when it is published: the year, the kind of law, and a serial number within that year. Titles can repeat over the decades; numbers never do.
Written by AI using Upper House Legislative Bureau: 法律番号 and Wikipedia: 法令番号 as a reference.
施行
The day a law or an amendment starts to apply. It is often months or years after promulgation, so that people have time to prepare. The Ministry of Justice's English usually says a…
Written by AI using Upper House Legislative Bureau: 法律の施行期日, Wikipedia: 施行 and Japanese Law Translation: Road Traffic Act as a reference.
未施行
A law or amendment that has been promulgated but whose enforcement date has not arrived. The text in force today does not include it yet. It is due to change the text on that date,…
Written by AI using Upper House Legislative Bureau: 公布後施行前の法律の改廃 as a reference.
条例
A rule a local government makes for itself: a prefecture (都道府県), a city, town or village (市町村), or one of Tokyo's special wards (特別区) (Local Autonomy Act, Articles 1-3, 281 and 283…
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 94 and Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 1-3, 2, 14, 16, 89, 96, 139, 281, 283 as a reference.
30 March 2024, the day the Act Partially Amending the Local Tax Act, etc. (Act No. 4 of 2024) was promulgated (公布).
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 91 of 1982, 2 September 1982, the day that Act was promulgated (officially published).
The day the 2015 amending law (Act No. 63 of 2015) was promulgated (published as law), on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of its supplementary provisions came into effect.
The day the 2015 amending law (Act No. 63 of 2015) was promulgated (published as law), on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of its supplementary provisions came into effect.
The day the 2015 amending law (Act No. 63 of 2015) was promulgated (published as law), on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of its supplementary provisions came into effect.
The period from the date set in Article 1, item (i) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the National Strategic Special Zones Act to 31 March 2028 within which the implementing corporation (実施法人) must acquire, make or build the specified machinery, etc. (特定機械装置等) in a National Strategic Special Zone for Article 42-10.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 15 of 2016, the application start date as defined in Article 56, paragraph (1) of those supplementary provisions: Article 42-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of this Act as amended by that Act applies to specified interest (特定利子) that a foreign financial institution, etc. (外国金融機関等) is to receive on or after it, and the former rule to specified interest due before it.
附則第五十六条第一項に規定する適用開始日
The date Act No. 65 of 2008, to which these supplementary provisions (附則) belong, comes into effect.
第五十条施行日
In Article 7 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 37 of 2021, the date Article 50 of that Act, which amended this Act, comes into effect.
第五十一条施行日
In Article 8, paragraph (2) and Article 9 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 37 of 2021, the date Article 51 of that Act, which amended this Act, comes into effect.
新法
The Road Traffic Act (Act No. 105 of 1960) itself, as enacted, as its original supplementary provisions (附則) call it.
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 7 of 2025 come into effect: a date a Cabinet Order (政令) sets within seven months of the Act's promulgation (公布).
第四号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 65 of 2006 come into effect, a date a Cabinet Order (政令) sets within one year of the Act's promulgation.
The date, set by Cabinet Order (政令) within one year of promulgation (公布, official publication), on which the provisions listed in the proviso to Article 1 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 61 of 1988) come into effect.
第四号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 62 of 2012 come into effect, a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within two years of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication).
第六号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (vi) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 31 of 2026 come into effect — among them its Article 2, which amends this Act — a date a Cabinet Order (政令) sets within two years of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication) on 5 June 2026.
The date, set by Cabinet Order (政令) within one year of the promulgation (公布) of the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds as first enacted (Act No. 22 of 2007), on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of its supplementary provisions (附則) come into effect, among them Article 2, paragraph (2) (other than items (xxii) and (xxiv)), Articles 4 to 10 and Articles 13 to 28 as then numbered.
第二号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions of the amending law in question came into force.
The date Article 1 of Act No. 96 of 1965, which amended the Road Traffic Act, came into effect, three months after that Act was promulgated.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 14 of 2020, the date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions, among them most of Article 2, which amended this Act, come into effect: a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within six months of promulgation.