# 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 / Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — 第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161)

- Law: 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 (Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons), 昭和四十六年法律第六十八号
- English title "Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons": 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: 第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161)（不服申立てに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4111-87/art-161`
- Text in force since: 2022-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-161
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### 第百六十一条（不服申立てに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Appeals
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<sup>suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-161</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前にされた国等の事務に係る処分であって、当該処分をした行政庁（以下この条において「処分庁」という。）に施行日前に行政不服審査法に規定する上級行政庁（以下この条において「上級行政庁」という。）があったものについての同法による不服申立てについては、施行日以後においても、当該処分庁に引き続き上級行政庁があるものとみなして、行政不服審査法の規定を適用する。この場合において、当該処分庁の上級行政庁とみなされる行政庁は、施行日前に当該処分庁の上級行政庁であった行政庁とする。
<sup>suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1</sup>
With regard to an appeal under the Administrative Complaint Review Act against a disposition pertaining to affairs of the State, etc. that was made before the effective date and for which the administrative agency that made the disposition (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "the agency that made the disposition") had, before the effective date, a higher administrative agency prescribed in that Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "higher administrative agency"), the provisions of the Administrative Complaint Review Act apply by deeming the agency that made the disposition to continue to have a higher administrative agency even on or after the effective date. In this case, the administrative agency deemed to be the higher administrative agency of the agency that made the disposition is the administrative agency that was the higher administrative agency of that agency before the effective date.
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**第二項**  前項の場合において、上級行政庁とみなされる行政庁が地方公共団体の機関であるときは、当該機関が行政不服審査法の規定により処理することとされる事務は、新地方自治法第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。
<sup>suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2</sup>
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the administrative agency deemed to be the higher administrative agency is an organ of a local government, the affairs that the organ is to handle pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Complaint Review Act are Type 1 statutory entrusted affairs prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the new Local Autonomy Act.
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## Cites
- suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1: この条 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161), suppl-4111-87/art-161 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-161
- suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2: 前項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第百六十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161, paragraph (1)), suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第百五十九条第一項（国等の事務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1
- 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第百六十一条第一項（不服申立てに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1
- 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第百六十一条第二項（不服申立てに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2022-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/346AC0000000068/20221001_504AC0000000012), retrieved 2026-10-09
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4630/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-employment-act-20261009T093722-003, translated 2026-10-09
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-employment-act-20261009T162006-001, translated 2026-10-10
- This site's parser, version 164 — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09
