# 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 / Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - Law: 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 (Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment), 昭和三十一年法律第百二十号 - English title "Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment": 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5071-41/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/suppl-5071-41/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/suppl-5071-41/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（罰則に関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-5071-41/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/suppl-5071-41/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/suppl-5071-41/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第二条第二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。 suppl-5071-41/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/suppl-5071-41/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/suppl-5071-41/art-4/par-1 Prior laws and regulations continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to conduct that a person engages in before this Act comes into effect, and to conduct that a person engages in after this Act comes into effect but which, pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, is to continue to be governed by prior laws and regulations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-41/art-4/par-1: 附則第二条第二項 → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/331AC0000000120/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5106/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11