# 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-4109-45/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-4109-45/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-4109-45/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4109-45/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. 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4109-45/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4109-45/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4109-45/art-3 **第一項** この省令の施行の日前にされた旧法第三十六条の協定（当該協定を更新しようとする旨の協定が施行の日以後にされるものを除く。）を同日以後に同条の規定により届け出る場合には、なお従前の様式によることができる。 suppl-4109-45/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4109-45/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4109-45/art-3/par-1 In the case where an agreement under Article 36 of the Former Act that was concluded before the date on which this Ministerial Order comes into effect (excluding an agreement for which an agreement to the effect that it is to be renewed is concluded on or after that date) is notified pursuant to the provisions of that Article on or after that date, the former Forms may still be used. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第二条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4109-45/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4109-45/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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-016, 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