Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures
第二条（経過措置）
With regard to representation in mediation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)-4 of the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance prior to its amendment (referred to as the "Former Act" in the following paragraph) that a self-employed labor and social security attorney or a labor and social security attorney corporation accepted before the date of enforcement of the provisions prescribed in the proviso to the preceding Article, and that pertains to mediation applied for before that date under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes (Act No. 112 of 2001), the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act").
A case in which a labor and social security attorney or a labor and social security attorney corporation conducted its business before the date of enforcement of the provisions prescribed in the proviso to the preceding Article, and which falls under the items of Article 22 of the Former Act (excluding item (iv)) or the items of Article 25-17 of the Former Act, is deemed to be a case that falls under the items of Article 22, paragraph (2) of the New Act or the items of Article 25-17 of the New Act, respectively.
前条ただし書に規定する規定の施行の日前に社会保険労務士又は社会保険労務士法人がその業務を行った事件で、旧法第二十二条各号（第四号を除く。）又は第二十五条の十七各号に該当するものは、それぞれ新法第二十二条第二項各号又は第二十五条の十七各号に該当する事件とみなす。