# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23)

- Law: 社会保険労務士法 (Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance), 昭和四十三年法律第八十九号
- English title "Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
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- Provision: 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23)（団体の名称使用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3561-64/art-23`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-3561-64/art-23
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### 第二十三条（団体の名称使用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Related to the Use of Names by Organizations
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3561-64/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-3561-64/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-3561-64/art-23</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に社会保険労務士会若しくは全国社会保険労務士会連合会又はこれらに類似する名称を用いている団体は、施行日から起算して六月間は、新法第二十六条第二項の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の名称を用いることができる。
<sup>suppl-3561-64/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-3561-64/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-3561-64/art-23/par-1</sup>
An organization that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually using the name of a labor and social security attorney's association or the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations, or a name similar to these, may, for six months from the Effective Date, continue to use its former name notwithstanding Article 26, paragraph (2) of the New Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3561-64/art-23/par-1: 新法第二十六条第二項 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十六条第二項 (Article 26, paragraph (2)), art-26/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-26/par-2

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 社会保険労務士法 附則第七条第一項（社会保険労務士会等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-3561-64/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-3561-64/art-7/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 社会保険労務士法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/343AC1000000089/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 社会保険労務士法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/903), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-and-social-security-attorney-act-20261018T205451-016, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 社会保険労務士法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18
