# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

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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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4129-2/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第二条（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Dispositions, Applications, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4129-2/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-2/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4129-2/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  地方分権の推進を図るための関係法律の整備等に関する法律（以下「地方分権推進整備法」という。）の施行前に改正前のそれぞれの法律若しくはこれに基づく政令の規定（これらの規定を準用する他の法律又はこれに基づく政令の規定を含む。以下同じ。）により都道府県労働基準局長若しくは都道府県知事が行つた許可等の処分その他の行為（以下「処分等の行為」という。）又は地方分権推進整備法の施行の際現に改正前のそれぞれの法律若しくはこれに基づく政令の規定により都道府県労働基準局長若しくは都道府県知事に対してされている許可等の申請その他の行為（以下「申請等の行為」という。）で、地方分権推進整備法の施行の日においてこれらの行為に係る行政事務を地方分権推進整備法による改正後のそれぞれの法律又はこれに基づく労働省令の規定（これらの規定を準用する他の法律又はこれに基づく労働省令の規定を含む。以下同じ。）により都道府県労働局長が行うこととなるものは、地方分権推進整備法の施行の日以後における改正後のそれぞれの法律又はこれに基づく労働省令の適用については、改正後のそれぞれの法律又はこれに基づく労働省令の相当規定により都道府県労働局長がした処分等の行為又は都道府県労働局長に対してされた申請等の行為とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4129-2/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-2/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4129-2/art-2/par-1</sup>
A disposition such as a permission or any other act (hereinafter referred to as a "disposition or other act") performed by the Director of a Prefectural Labor Standards Bureau or a prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts prior to the amendment or of Cabinet Orders based thereon (including the provisions of other Acts or of Cabinet Orders based thereon that apply those provisions mutatis mutandis; the same applies hereinafter) before the Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts for the Promotion of Decentralization (hereinafter referred to as the "Decentralization Reform Law") comes into effect, or an application for a permission or any other act (hereinafter referred to as an "application or other act") that has actually been made to the Director of a Prefectural Labor Standards Bureau or a prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts prior to the amendment or of Cabinet Orders based thereon at the time the Decentralization Reform Law comes into effect, for which the administrative affairs pertaining to those acts are, as of the date on which the Decentralization Reform Law comes into effect, to be performed by the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts as amended by the Decentralization Reform Law or of Orders of the Ministry of Labour based thereon (including the provisions of other Acts or of Orders of the Ministry of Labour based thereon that apply those provisions mutatis mutandis; the same applies hereinafter), is deemed, with regard to the application of the respective Acts as amended or of Orders of the Ministry of Labour based thereon on or after the date on which the Decentralization Reform Law comes into effect, to be a disposition or other act performed by the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau or an application or other act made to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the respective Acts as amended or of Orders of the Ministry of Labour based thereon.
<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-017, translated 2026-09-11
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-20260918T145443-001, 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