# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-3621-99/art-5. 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: 少年法 (Juveniles Act), 昭和二十三年法律第百六十八号 - English title "Juveniles 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3621-99/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-3621-99/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3621-99/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3621-99/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-3621-99/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3621-99/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為並びに附則第二条及び第三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事項に係るこの法律の施行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。 suppl-3621-99/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-3621-99/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3621-99/art-5/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect with respect to matters that are to be governed by the provisions then in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 and Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3621-99/art-5/par-1: 附則第二条 → 少年法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-3621-99/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-3621-99/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3621-99/art-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 附則第六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-3621-99/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3621-99/art-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 少年法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000168/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Juveniles Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch juvenile-act-20261102T172711-003, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02