# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- Law: 職業安定法 (Employment Security Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号
- English title "Employment Security 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4111-85/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/suppl-4111-85/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/suppl-4111-85/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-4111-85/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/suppl-4111-85/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/suppl-4111-85/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第六条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけ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-4111-85/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/suppl-4111-85/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/suppl-4111-85/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 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-4111-85/art-8/par-1: 附則第六条 → 職業安定法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4111-85/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/suppl-4111-85/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/suppl-4111-85/art-6

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 職業安定法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000141/20260401_506AC0000000050), retrieved 2026-10-17
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-security-act-20261017T220554-005, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17