# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

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- 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)（関係行政機関の長の意見の求めに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5081-30/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
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### 第四条（関係行政機関の長の意見の求めに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Requests for Opinions of the Heads of Relevant Administrative Organs
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5081-30/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5081-30/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条ただし書に規定する規定の施行の日から施行日の前日までの間における新法第六十九条の四第一号及び第二号の規定の適用については、同条第一号中「（第二十七条の四第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の」とあるのは「の」と、「第二十七条第一項」とあるのは「同条第一項」と、同条第二号中「（第二十八条の四第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の」とあるのは「の」と、「第二十八条第一項」とあるのは「同条第一項」とする。
<sup>suppl-5081-30/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5081-30/art-4/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 69-4, items (i) and (ii) of the New Act during the period from the date of enforcement of the provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions until the day before the Effective Date, the phrase "Article 27, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-4, paragraph (2))" in Article 69-4, item (i) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 27, paragraph (3)" and the phrase "Article 27, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of that Article", and the phrase "Article 28, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28-4, paragraph (2))" in item (ii) of Article 69-4 of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 28, paragraph (3)" and the phrase "Article 28, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of that Article".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5081-30/art-4/par-1: 附則第一条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-5081-30/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5081-30/art-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5081-30/art-1/par-1
- 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第七条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5081-30/art-7/par-1

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## 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-20261105T150743-009, 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
