# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

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- Law: 労働基準法 (Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年法律第四十九号
- English title "Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation
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- Provision: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（労働基準法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-3511-34/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-17
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### 第五条（労働基準法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Labor Standards Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3511-34/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-3511-34/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3511-34/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  前条の規定の施行の日前にした同条の規定による改正前の労働基準法の規定に違反する行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3511-34/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-3511-34/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3511-34/art-5/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the date on which the provisions of the preceding Article come into effect in violation of the provisions of the Labor Standards Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of that Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<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 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000049/20260717_508AC0000000060), retrieved 2026-09-27
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4913/tb), retrieved 2026-09-27
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-003, translated 2026-09-11
- This site's parser, version 224 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27