# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/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: 外国為替及び外国貿易法 (Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act), 昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号 - English title "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade 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-4031-40/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4031-40/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法第二十九条第三項に規定する技術導入契約の締結等をしてはならない期間が満了していない旧法の規定による届出に係る技術導入契約の締結等（居住者が届け出たものに限る。次項において同じ。）で、新法第二十九条の規定により報告しなければならない技術導入契約の締結等に該当するものについては、施行日の前日において当該期間が満了したものとみなして、当該届出をした居住者は、施行日以後当該技術導入契約の締結等をすることができる。この場合において、当該居住者に係る届出は、当該技術導入契約の締結等がされた日において同条本文の規定によりされた報告とみなす。 suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-1 With regard to entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract notified under the Former Act (limited to those notified by a resident; the same applies in the following paragraph) for which the period prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (3) of the Former Act during which the entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract must not be carried out has not yet expired at the time this Act comes into effect, and which falls under entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract that must be reported pursuant to Article 29 of the New Act, that period is deemed to have expired on the day before the Effective Date, and the resident that made the notification may carry out that entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract on or after the Effective Date. In this case, the notification concerning that resident is deemed to be a report made pursuant to the main clause of that Article on the day on which that entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract was carried out. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第四項に定めるものを除き、この法律の施行の際現に旧法第二十九条第三項に規定する技術導入契約の締結等をしてはならない期間が満了していない旧法の規定による届出に係る技術導入契約の締結等で新法第三十条第一項の規定により届け出なければならない技術導入契約の締結等に該当するものについては当該届出がされた日において同項の規定による届出がされたものと、旧法第三十条第一項又は第三項の規定により技術導入契約の締結等をしてはならない期間が延長された旧法の規定による届出に係る技術導入契約の締結等でこの法律の施行の際現にその期間が満了していないものについては当該届出がされた日において新法第三十条第一項の規定により届出がされ、同条第三項又は第六項の規定により技術導入契約の締結等をしてはならない期間が延長されたものとみなして、新法の規定を適用する。 suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2 Except as provided in paragraph (4), the provisions of the New Act apply to entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract notified under the Former Act for which the period prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (3) of the Former Act during which the entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract must not be carried out has not yet expired at the time this Act comes into effect, and which falls under entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract that must be notified pursuant to Article 30, paragraph (1) of the New Act, as if a notification under that paragraph had been made on the day that notification was made; and to entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract notified under the Former Act for which the period during which entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract must not be carried out has been extended pursuant to Article 30, paragraph (1) or (3) of the Former Act and for which that period has not yet expired at the time this Act comes into effect, as if a notification had been made pursuant to Article 30, paragraph (1) of the New Act on the day that notification was made and the period during which entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract must not be carried out had been extended pursuant to paragraph (3) or (6) of that Article. machine translation, not official **第三項** 次項に定めるものを除き、この法律の施行の際現に旧法第二十九条第三項に規定する技術導入契約の締結等をしてはならない期間（旧法第三十条第一項又は第三項の規定により当該期間が延長された場合には、当該延長された期間）が満了していない旧法の規定による届出に係る技術導入契約の締結等（非居住者が届け出たものに限る。）については、施行日の前日において当該期間が満了したものとみなして、当該届出をした非居住者は、施行日以後当該技術導入契約の締結等をすることができる。 suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-3 Except as provided in the following paragraph, with regard to entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract notified under the Former Act (limited to those notified by a non-resident) for which the period prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (3) of the Former Act during which the entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract must not be carried out (where that period has been extended pursuant to Article 30, paragraph (1) or (3) of the Former Act, the extended period) has not yet expired at the time this Act comes into effect, that period is deemed to have expired on the day before the Effective Date, and the non-resident that made the notification may carry out that entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract on or after the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第四項** 施行日前にされた旧法第三十条第二項の規定による勧告、同条第四項において準用する旧法第二十七条第四項の規定による通知又は旧法第三十条第四項において準用する旧法第二十七条第七項の規定による命令に係る技術導入契約の締結等については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 With regard to entry into, renewal, or modification of a technology introduction contract pertaining to a recommendation under Article 30, paragraph (2) of the Former Act, a notice under Article 27, paragraph (4) of the Former Act as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 30, paragraph (4) of the Former Act, or an order under Article 27, paragraph (7) of the Former Act as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 30, paragraph (4) of the Former Act, made before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-1: 次項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2 - suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2: 第四項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (4)), suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 - suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-3: 次項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (4)), suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-4 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第二条第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-2/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-4031-40/art-4/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act-20261105T150743-005, translated 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act-20261105T150743-005, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05