# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-3. 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: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-4151-109/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（経過措置の原則） — Principles of Transitional Measures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4151-109/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-3 **第一項** この法律（以下「新法」という。）の規定（罰則を除く。）は、この附則に特別の定めがある場合を除き、新法の施行前に生じた事項にも適用する。ただし、前条の規定による廃止前の人事訴訟手続法の規定により生じた効力を妨げない。 suppl-4151-109/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-3/par-1 The provisions of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") (excluding penal provisions) also apply to matters that arose before the New Act comes into force, except as otherwise specifically provided in these Supplementary Provisions; provided, however, that this does not preclude the effect that arose under the provisions of the Personal Status Litigation Procedure Act before its abolition under the provisions of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4151-109/art-3/par-1: 前条 → 人事訴訟法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4151-109/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-status-litigation-act-20261102T174633-003, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02