# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)

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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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4131-35/art-6`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-17
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### 第六条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4131-35/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4131-35/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  この法律（附則第一条ただし書に規定する規定については、当該規定。以下同じ。）の施行前にした行為並びに附則第二条第三項及び第四条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした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-4131-35/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4131-35/art-6/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before this Act (or, for the provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; the same applies hereinafter) comes into effect and to conduct engaged in after this Act comes into effect in the case where the provisions then in force are to remain applicable pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (3) and Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4131-35/art-6/par-1: 附則第一条 → 労働基準法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-4131-35/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4131-35/art-1

## Cited by

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

- 労働基準法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-4131-35/art-1/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 — 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-008, translated 2026-09-11
- This site's parser, version 225 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27
