# 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 / Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — 第百五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 159) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159. 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: 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 (Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation), 昭和二十三年法律第百二十四号 - English title "Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation": claude-opus-5 - 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: 第百五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 159)（国等の事務） — address `suppl-4111-87/art-159` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/suppl-4111-87/art-159 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条（国等の事務） — (Affairs of the State, etc.) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4111-87/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/suppl-4111-87/art-159 **第一項** この法律による改正前のそれぞれの法律に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行前において、地方公共団体の機関が法律又はこれに基づく政令により管理し又は執行する国、他の地方公共団体その他公共団体の事務（附則第百六十一条において「国等の事務」という。）は、この法律の施行後は、地方公共団体が法律又はこれに基づく政令により当該地方公共団体の事務として処理するものとする。 suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 Beyond the provisions of each law before the amendment by this Act, before this Act comes into force, affairs of the State, other local governments and other public organs that are executed or managed by local government organs pursuant to laws or Cabinet Orders based on these laws (referred to in Article 161 of supplementary provisions as "affairs of the State, etc.") are to be processed by local governments as affairs of said local government pursuant to laws or Cabinet Orders based on these, after this Act comes into force. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Beyond the provisions of each law before the amendment by this Act, before this Act comes into force, affairs of the State, other locals governments and other public organs that are executed or managed by local government organs pursuant to laws or Cabinet Orders based on these laws (referred to in Article 161 of supplementary provisions as "affairs of the State, etc.") are to be processed by local governments as affairs of said local government pursuant to laws or a Cabinet Orders based on these, after this Act comes into force." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2594/tb --- ## Cites - suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1: 附則第百六十一条 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 附則第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161), suppl-4111-87/art-161 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/suppl-4111-87/art-161 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 附則第百六十条第一項（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5 — English titles of cited laws, written for this site, written 2026-09-19 - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-02 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000124/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation (大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律), Supplementary Provisions, Article 159, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2594/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2594/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - This site's parser, version 219 — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01