# 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-5021-14. 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-5021-14` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-5021-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-5021-14 - 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 令和二年三月三一日法律第一四号 suppl-5021-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-5021-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-5021-14 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5021-14/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-5021-14/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-5021-14/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、令和二年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-5021-14/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-5021-14/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-5021-14/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2020; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第一条中雇用保険法第十九条第一項の改正規定、同法第三十六条の見出しを削る改正規定並びに同法第四十八条及び第五十四条の改正規定並びに同法附則第四条、第五条、第十条及び第十一条の二第一項の改正規定並びに附則第十条、第二十六条及び第二十八条から第三十二条までの規定　公布の日 suppl-5021-14/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/suppl-5021-14/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/suppl-5021-14/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act, the provisions deleting the caption of Article 36 of that Act, the provisions amending Article 48 and Article 54 of that Act, and the provisions amending Article 4, Article 5, Article 10 and Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the provisions of Article 10, Article 26 and Articles 28 through 32 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation machine translation, not official --- ## Sources - 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-contracts-act-001, translated 2026-09-11 - This site's parser, version 211 — 労働契約法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10