# 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-4151-55/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) — address `suppl-4151-55/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-4151-55/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/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 suppl-4151-55/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-4 **第一項** 附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定の施行前にされた旧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検査の申請であって、附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定の施行の際、合格又は不合格の処分がされていないものについての合格又は不合格の処分については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4151-55/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-4/par-1 With regard to a disposition of passing or failing in respect of an application for an inspection under Article 14, paragraph (1) or Article 15, paragraphs (1) through (3) of the Former Food Sanitation Act that was filed before the enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions and for which a disposition of passing or failing has not been made at the time of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4151-55/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-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-3 - 食品衛生法 附則第二条第一項（登録検査機関に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-2/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-20261102T225259-006, 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