# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

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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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-5059-39/art-7`
- 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-5059-39/art-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5059-39/art-7
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### 第七条
<sup>suppl-5059-39/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5059-39/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5059-39/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  この省令の施行の際現にある旧規則に定める様式による用紙については、当分の間、これを取り繕って使用することができる。
<sup>suppl-5059-39/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5059-39/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5059-39/art-7/par-1</sup>
Paper forms in accordance with the Forms prescribed in the Former Rules that actually exist at the time this Ministerial Order comes into effect may be used for the time being with corrections made to them.
<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-20260918T121515-003, 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