# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-2. 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 (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 - Kind: Act — 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)（退職時の証明に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4101-112/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. --- ### 第二条（退職時の証明に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Certificates upon Retirement caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-112/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-2 **第一項** この法律による改正後の労働基準法（以下「新法」という。）第二十二条第一項の規定は、この法律の施行の日以後に退職した労働者について適用し、この法律の施行の日前に退職した労働者については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4101-112/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-2/par-1 The provisions of Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "new Act") apply to a worker who retires on or after the date on which this Act comes into effect, and with regard to a worker who retired before the date on which this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4101-112/art-2/par-1: 第二十二条第一項 → 労働基準法 第二十二条第一項 (Article 22, paragraph (1)), art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-22/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法 附則第九条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-9/par-1 - 労働基準法 附則第十条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-10/par-1 --- ## 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-006, 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