# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4071-101/art-4. 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: 食品衛生法 (Food Sanitation Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二百三十三号 - English title "Food Sanitation 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（指定検査機関に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4071-101/art-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4071-101/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4071-101/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（指定検査機関に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Designated Inspection Bodies caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4071-101/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4071-101/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4071-101/art-4 **第一項** 附則第一条第三号に掲げる改正規定の施行の際現に旧食品衛生法第十四条第一項又は第十五条第一項若しくは第二項の指定を受けている者及びこの法律の施行の際現に新食品衛生法第十四条第一項又は第十五条第一項から第三項までの指定を受けている者に対する新食品衛生法第十九条の十二の規定の適用については、施行日から起算して一年間は、同条中「第十九条の四第二号から第五号まで」とあるのは、「第十九条の四第二号、第四号又は第五号」とする。 suppl-4071-101/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4071-101/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4071-101/art-4/par-1 With regard to the application of Article 19-12 of the New Food Sanitation Act to a person who, at the time of enforcement of the amending provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions, has been designated under Article 14, paragraph (1) or Article 15, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Former Food Sanitation Act, and to a person who, at the time of enforcement of this Act, has been designated under Article 14, paragraph (1) or Article 15, paragraphs (1) through (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act, for one year counting from the Effective Date, the phrase "Article 19-4, items (ii) through (v)" in Article 19-12 of the New Food Sanitation Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 19-4, item (ii), (iv), or (v)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4071-101/art-4/par-1: 附則第一条第三号 → 食品衛生法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4071-101/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4071-101/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4071-101/art-1/par-1/item-3 - suppl-4071-101/art-4/par-1: 第十五条第一項から第三項まで → 食品衛生法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-15/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 食品衛生法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000233/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-004, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02