# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第百五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 159) - Law: 労働安全衛生法 (Industrial Safety and Health Act), 昭和四十七年法律第五十七号 - English title "Industrial Safety and Health 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: 第百五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 159)（国等の事務） — address `suppl-4111-87/art-159` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-4111-87/art-159 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条（国等の事務） — (Administrative Functions of the National Government and Other Public Organizations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4111-87/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-4111-87/art-159 **第一項** この法律による改正前のそれぞれの法律に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行前において、地方公共団体の機関が法律又はこれに基づく政令により管理し又は執行する国、他の地方公共団体その他公共団体の事務（附則第百六十一条において「国等の事務」という。）は、この法律の施行後は、地方公共団体が法律又はこれに基づく政令により当該地方公共団体の事務として処理するものとする。 suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 Beyond what is prescribed in each of the relevant Acts before their amendment by this Act, the administrative functions of the national government, other local governments, and other public entities that, before this Act comes into effect, the agency of a local government manages or performs pursuant to an Act or a Cabinet Order based on an Act (referred to as "administrative functions of the national government and other public entities" in Article 161 of Supplementary Provisions) are administrative functions that, after this Act comes into effect, the local government is to handle as its own pursuant to an Act or a Cabinet Order based on an Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1: 附則第百六十一条 → 労働安全衛生法 附則第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161), suppl-4111-87/art-161 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-4111-87/art-161 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 附則第百六十条第一項（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働安全衛生法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/347AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000033), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Safety and Health Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17