# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

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- Law: 労働基準法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年厚生省令第二十三号
- English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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-3489-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3489-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3489-5
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## 附　則 昭和四八年三月二七日労働省令第五号
<sup>suppl-3489-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3489-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3489-5</sup>

**第一項**  この省令は、昭和四十八年四月一日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-3489-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3489-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3489-5/par-1</sup>
This Ministerial Order comes into effect as of April 1, 1973.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  この省令の施行前に御坊労働基準監督署長に対して行なわれた許可、認可、認定その他の処分の申請、届出、報告その他の手続又は同労働基準監督署長が行なつた許可、認可、認定その他の処分等は、この省令による改正後の労働基準法施行規則の規定により当該事務が和歌山労働基準監督署長によつて取り扱われることとなつた場合には、同労働基準監督署長に対して行なわれ、又は同労働基準監督署長が行なつたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-3489-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3489-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3489-5/par-2</sup>
An application for permission, approval, recognition or any other disposition, a notification, a report or any other procedure that was made to the Director of the Gobo Labor Standards Office before this Ministerial Order comes into effect, or a permission, approval, recognition or any other disposition, etc. that was made by that Director, is, in the case where the relevant affairs have come to be handled by the Director of the Wakayama Labor Standards Office pursuant to the provisions of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act after the amendment by this Ministerial Order, deemed to have been made to, or to have been made by, that Director.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322M40000100023/20260401_508M60000100057), retrieved 2026-09-10
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-012, translated 2026-09-11
- This site's parser, version 222 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10
