# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

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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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-5079-62/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-5079-62/art-3
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### 第三条
<sup>suppl-5079-62/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5079-62/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5079-62/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  この省令の施行の際現にあるこの省令による改正前の様式（次項において「旧様式」という。）により使用されている書類は、この省令による改正後の様式によるものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-1</sup>
Documents in use in accordance with the Forms prior to the amendment by this Ministerial Order (referred to as the "former Forms" in the following paragraph) that actually exist at the time this Ministerial Order comes into effect are deemed to be documents in accordance with the Forms as amended by this Ministerial Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  この省令の施行の際現にある旧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-5079-62/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-2</sup>
Paper forms in accordance with the Former Forms 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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## Cites
- suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-1: 次項 → 労働基準法施行規則 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-2

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 労働基準法施行規則 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5079-62/art-3/par-1

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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-021, 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
