# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/suppl-4151-138/art-5. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 仲裁法 (Arbitration Act), 平成十五年法律第百三十八号 - English title "Arbitration Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（仲裁手続に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4151-138/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/suppl-4151-138/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/suppl-4151-138/art-5 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五条（仲裁手続に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Arbitration Procedures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4151-138/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/suppl-4151-138/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/suppl-4151-138/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行前に開始した仲裁手続及び当該仲裁手続に関して裁判所が行う手続（仲裁判断があった後に開始されるものを除く。）については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4151-138/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/suppl-4151-138/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/suppl-4151-138/art-5/par-1 With regard to an arbitration procedure commenced before this Act comes into effect and proceedings conducted by the court in relation to that arbitration procedure (excluding those commenced after an arbitral award is made), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 仲裁法 附則第六条第一項（仲裁人忌避の訴えに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/suppl-4151-138/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/suppl-4151-138/art-6/par-1 - 仲裁法 附則第七条第一項（仲裁廷に対する忌避の申立てに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/suppl-4151-138/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/suppl-4151-138/art-7/par-1 - 仲裁法 附則第十四条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/suppl-4151-138/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/suppl-4151-138/art-14/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 仲裁法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000138/20260521_504AC0000000048), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Arbitration Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch arbitration-act-20261101T163107-002, translated 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 219 — 仲裁法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01