# 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 / Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - Law: 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 (Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims), 平成十三年法律第三十一号 - English title "Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims": 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)（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5051-30/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/suppl-5051-30/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/suppl-5051-30/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（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures concerning Application of Penal Provisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-5051-30/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/suppl-5051-30/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/suppl-5051-30/art-4 **第一項** 刑法等の一部を改正する法律（令和四年法律第六十七号）の施行の日（以下この条において「刑法施行日」という。）の前日までの間における新法第三十条の規定の適用については、同条中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「懲役」とする。刑法施行日以後における刑法施行日前にした行為に対する同条の規定の適用についても、同様とする。 suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1 With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 30 of the New Act during the period until the day preceding the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code (Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Penal Code enforcement date" in this Article), the term "imprisonment" in the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies with regard to the application of the provisions of the same Article on or after the Penal Code enforcement date to acts committed before the Penal Code enforcement date. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 30 of the New Act during the period until the day preceding the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code (Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Penal Code enforcement date" in this Article), the term "imprisonment under the new Penal Code" in the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment under the former Penal Code". The same applies with regard to the application of the provisions of the same Article on or after the Penal Code enforcement date to acts committed before the Penal Code enforcement date." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb --- ## Cites - suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1: この条 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-5051-30/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/suppl-5051-30/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/suppl-5051-30/art-4 - suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1: 新法第三十条 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三十条 (Article 30), art-30 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-30 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 附則第四条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/suppl-5051-30/art-4/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0100000031/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims (配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律), Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10