# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4099-4/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4099-4/art-3` - 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-4099-4/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4099-4/art-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4099-4/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4099-4/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4099-4/art-3 **第一項** 労働基準法及び労働時間の短縮の促進に関する臨時措置法の一部を改正する法律（平成五年法律第七十九号）の施行の日前に六箇月を超えて継続勤務していた労働者であって一週間の所定労働時間が三十時間未満のものに係る法第三十九条第三項の通常の労働者の一週間の所定労働日数として命令で定める日数と当該労働者の一週間の所定労働日数又は一週間当たりの平均所定労働日数との比率を考慮して命令で定める日数は、新規則第二十四条の三第三項及び前条第二項の規定にかかわらず、法第三十九条第三項第一号に掲げる労働者にあっては次の表の上欄の所定労働日数の区分に応じ、同項第二号に掲げる労働者にあっては同表の中欄の一年間の所定労働日数の区分に応じて、それぞれ同表の下欄の勤続年数の区分ごとに定める日数とする。 週所定労働日数 一年間の所定労働日数 勤続年数 四年 五年 六年 七年 八年 九年 十年 十一年以上 四日 百六十九日から二百十六日まで 九日 十日 十一日 十二日 十二日 十三日 十四日 十五日 三日 百二十一日から百六十八日まで 七日 七日 八日 九日 九日 十日 十日 十一日 二日 七十三日から百二十日まで 四日 五日 五日 六日 六日 六日 七日 七日 一日 四十八日から七十二日まで 二日 二日 二日 三日 三日 三日 三日 三日 suppl-4099-4/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4099-4/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4099-4/art-3/par-1 With respect to a worker who had been in continuous service for more than six months before the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Labor Standards Act and the Act on Temporary Measures for Promotion of Shorter Working Hours (Act No. 79 of 1993) came into effect and whose prescribed working hours per week are less than 30 hours, the number of days specified by order in consideration of the ratio between the number of days specified by order as the number of prescribed working days per week for an ordinary worker referred to in Article 39, paragraph (3) of the Act and the number of prescribed working days per week or the average number of prescribed working days per week for the worker concerned is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 24-3, paragraph (3) of the New Rules and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the number of days specified for each category of years of continuous service in the right-hand column of the following table, in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days in the left-hand column of that table in the case of a worker set forth in Article 39, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act, and in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days for one year in the middle column of that table in the case of a worker set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph. Prescribed weekly working days Prescribed working days for one year Years of continuous service 4 years 5 years 6 years 7 years 8 years 9 years 10 years 11 years or more 4 days 169 to 216 days 9 days 10 days 11 days 12 days 12 days 13 days 14 days 15 days 3 days 121 to 168 days 7 days 7 days 8 days 9 days 9 days 10 days 10 days 11 days 2 days 73 to 120 days 4 days 5 days 5 days 6 days 6 days 6 days 7 days 7 days 1 day 48 to 72 days 2 days 2 days 2 days 3 days 3 days 3 days 3 days 3 days machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4099-4/art-3/par-1: 法第三十九条第三項 → 労働基準法 第三十九条第三項 (Article 39, paragraph (3)), art-39/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39/par-3 - suppl-4099-4/art-3/par-1: 新規則第二十四条の三第三項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第二十四条の三第三項 (Article 24-3, paragraph (3)), art-24-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-3/par-3 - suppl-4099-4/art-3/par-1: 前条第二項 → 労働基準法施行規則 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-4099-4/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4099-4/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4099-4/art-2/par-2 - suppl-4099-4/art-3/par-1: 法第三十九条第三項第一号 → 労働基準法 第三十九条第三項第一号 (Article 39, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-39/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-39/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39/par-3/item-1 - suppl-4099-4/art-3/par-1: 同項第二号 → 労働基準法 第三十九条第三項第二号 (Article 39, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-39/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-39/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39/par-3/item-2 --- ## 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-20260918T205218-001, translated 2026-09-18 - 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