# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

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- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（記事等の掲載の禁止に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5031-47/art-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-5031-47/art-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-5031-47/art-7
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### 第七条（記事等の掲載の禁止に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Prohibition on Publication of News Articles
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5031-47/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-5031-47/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-5031-47/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  新少年法第六十八条の規定は、この法律の施行後に公訴を提起された場合について適用する。
<sup>suppl-5031-47/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-5031-47/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-5031-47/art-7/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 68 of the New Juveniles Act apply to a case where a public prosecution is instituted after this Act comes into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5031-47/art-7/par-1: 新少年法第六十八条 → 少年法 第六十八条 (Article 68), art-68 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-68

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## 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-20261102T172711-006, translated 2026-11-03
- This site's parser, version 223 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02