# 労働契約法 / Labor Contracts Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56. 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: 労働契約法 (Labor Contracts Act), 平成十九年法律第百二十八号 - English title "Labor Contracts 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4241-56` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成二四年八月一〇日法律第五六号 suppl-4241-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、第二条並びに次項及び附則第三項の規定は、公布の日から起算して一年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-4241-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the date of promulgation. However, the provisions of Article 2 and the next paragraph and paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date provided by a cabinet order within one year from the date of promulgation. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "This Act comes into effect as of the date of promulgation. However, the provisions of Article 2 and the next paragraph and paragraph (3) of Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date provided by a cabinet order within one year from the date of promulgation." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb **第二項** 第二条の規定による改正後の労働契約法（以下「新労働契約法」という。）第十八条の規定は、前項ただし書に規定する規定の施行の日以後の日を契約期間の初日とする期間の定めのある労働契約について適用し、同項ただし書に規定する規定の施行の日前の日が初日である期間の定めのある労働契約の契約期間は、同条第一項に規定する通算契約期間には、算入しない。 suppl-4241-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-2 The provisions of Article 18 of the Labor Contracts Act after the revision by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Labor Contracts Act") are applied to a fixed-term labor contract where a day on or after the effective date provided by the proviso of the preceding paragraph is determined as the first day of the contract term, and the contract term of a fixed-term labor contract where a day before the effective date provided by the proviso of the same paragraph is determined as the first day is not included in the total contract term provided by paragraph (1) in the same Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 政府は、附則第一項ただし書に規定する規定の施行後八年を経過した場合において、新労働契約法第十八条の規定について、その施行の状況を勘案しつつ検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4241-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-3 The Government is to review the provisions of Article 18 of the New Labor Contracts Act taking the situations after the enforcement of the provisions into account and is to take necessary measures, based on the outcomes of the review, if it is found to be necessary, at the time when eight years have lapsed since the enforcement of the provisions provided by the proviso of paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The Government is to review the provisions of Article 18 of the New Labor Contracts Act taking the situations after the enforcement of the provisions into account and is to take necessary measures, based on the outcomes of the review, if it is found to be necessary, at the time when eight years have lapsed since the enforcement of the provisions provided by the proviso of paragraph (1) of Supplementary Provisions." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb --- ## Cites - suppl-4241-56/par-1: 次項 → 労働契約法 附則第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (2)), suppl-4241-56/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-2 - suppl-4241-56/par-1: 附則第三項 → 労働契約法 附則第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (3)), suppl-4241-56/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-3 - suppl-4241-56/par-2: 第十八条 → 労働契約法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-18 - suppl-4241-56/par-2: 前項 → 労働契約法 附則第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (1)), suppl-4241-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-1 - suppl-4241-56/par-2: 同条第一項 → 労働契約法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-18/par-1 - suppl-4241-56/par-3: 附則第一項 → 労働契約法 附則第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (1)), suppl-4241-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-1 - suppl-4241-56/par-3: 新労働契約法第十八条 → 労働契約法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-18 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働契約法 附則第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-1 - 労働契約法 附則第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-2 - 労働契約法 附則第三項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-4241-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-4241-56/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of supplementary provisions, written 2026-10-07 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働契約法 — the text in force from 2020-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/419AC0000000128/20200401_430AC0000000071), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Contracts Act (労働契約法), Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Contracts Act (労働契約法), Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Contracts Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - This site's parser, version 211 — 労働契約法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10