# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-2/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4129-2/art-4` - 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-4129-2/art-4 - e-Gov law ID: 322M40000100023 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4129-2/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-2/art-4 **第一項** この省令の施行前に改正前のそれぞれの省令の規定により国又は地方公共団体の機関又は職員に対して報告、届出、提出その他の手続をしなければならない事項で、この省令の施行の日前にその手続がされていないものについては、これを改正後のそれぞれの省令の相当規定により国又は地方公共団体の相当の機関又は職員に対して報告、届出、提出をしなければならない事項についてその手続がされていないものとみなして、この省令による改正後のそれぞれの省令の規定を適用する。 suppl-4129-2/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-2/art-4/par-1 With respect to matters for which a report, notification, submission or any other procedure must be made to an organ or official of the national government or a local government pursuant to the provisions of the respective Ministerial Orders prior to the amendment before this Ministerial Order comes into effect and for which that procedure has not been carried out before the date on which this Ministerial Order comes into effect, the provisions of the respective Ministerial Orders as amended by this Ministerial Order apply by deeming those matters to be matters for which a report, notification or submission must be made to the corresponding organ or official of the national government or a local government pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the respective Ministerial Orders as amended and for which that procedure has not been carried out. machine translation, not official --- ## 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 - 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