# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5071-33/art-8`
- 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-5071-33/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-5071-33/art-8
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### 第八条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5071-33/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-5071-33/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-5071-33/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前にした行為並びに附則第五条第一項及び前条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合における施行日以後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-5071-33/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-5071-33/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-5071-33/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the effective date and to acts committed on or after the effective date in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5071-33/art-8/par-1: 附則第五条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 附則第五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)), suppl-5071-33/art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-5071-33/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-5071-33/art-5/par-1
- suppl-5071-33/art-8/par-1: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-5071-33/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-5071-33/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-5071-33/art-7/par-1

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## 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
- claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-safety-and-health-act-20261017T185616-007, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17