Supplementary Provisions
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This Act comes into effect as of the day on which 20 days have elapsed from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions in Article 1 adding one Article after Article 4 of the Penal Code, the provisions of Articles 2 and 3, the provisions of the following paragraph, and the provisions in paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions amending item (xi) of paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the Act on Emergency Measures for Ensuring Security at New Tokyo International Airport (Act No. 42 of 1978) come into effect as of the day on which the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, or the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages enters into force for Japan.
この法律は、公布の日から起算して二十日を経過した日から施行する。ただし、第一条中刑法第四条の次に一条を加える改正規定、第二条及び第三条の規定並びに次項の規定及び附則第四項中新東京国際空港の安全確保に関する緊急措置法（昭和五十三年法律第四十二号）第二条第一項第十一号の改正規定は、国際的に保護される者（外交官を含む。）に対する犯罪の防止及び処罰に関する条約又は人質をとる行為に関する国際条約が日本国について効力を生ずる日から施行する。
The provisions of Article 4-2 of the Penal Code, and the provisions of Article 5 of the Act on Punishment of Compulsion and Other Related Acts Committed by Those Having Taken Hostages and of paragraph (3) of Article 1-2 of the Act on Punishment of Physical Violence and Others (limited to the part relating to Article 4-2 of the Penal Code), apply only to crimes which are to be punished even if committed outside Japan under a treaty that enters into force for Japan on or after the effective date of the provisions prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, or under the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of August 12, 1949, the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea of August 12, 1949, the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949, and the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949.
刑法第四条の二の規定並びに人質による強要行為等の処罰に関する法律第五条及び暴力行為等処罰に関する法律第一条ノ二第三項の規定（刑法第四条の二に係る部分に限る。）は、前項ただし書に規定する規定の施行の日以後に日本国について効力を生ずる条約並びに戦地にある軍隊の傷者及び病者の状態の改善に関する千九百四十九年八月十二日のジュネーヴ条約、海上にある軍隊の傷者、病者及び難船者の状態の改善に関する千九百四十九年八月十二日のジュネーヴ条約、捕虜の待遇に関する千九百四十九年八月十二日のジュネーヴ条約及び戦時における文民の保護に関する千九百四十九年八月十二日のジュネーヴ条約により日本国外において犯したときであつても罰すべきものとされる罪に限り適用する。
The provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 3 of the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Fine and Others (Act No. 251 of 1948) are to apply also to the fines prescribed for the crimes under Articles 161-2 and 234-2 of the Penal Code as amended by this Act.
罰金等臨時措置法（昭和二十三年法律第二百五十一号）第三条第一項の規定は、この法律による改正後の刑法第百六十一条ノ二及び第二百三十四条ノ二の罪につき定めた罰金についても、適用されるものとする。