# 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 / Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- Law: 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 (Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities), 昭和三十五年法律第百二十三号
- English title "Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities": 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3591-50/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3591-50/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3591-50/art-8
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### 第八条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3591-50/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3591-50/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3591-50/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にした行為並びに附則第五条及び第六条の規定により従前の例によることとされる事項に関するこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3591-50/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3591-50/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3591-50/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the enforcement of this Act and to acts committed after the enforcement of this Act in relation to matters for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Articles 5 and 6 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3591-50/art-8/par-1: 附則第五条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-3591-50/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3591-50/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3591-50/art-5
- suppl-3591-50/art-8/par-1: 第六条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-3591-50/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3591-50/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3591-50/art-6

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-003, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18