# 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 / Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- Law: 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 (Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons), 昭和四十六年法律第六十八号
- English title "Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons": 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4241-27/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2022-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-8
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### 第八条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にした行為及び前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-4241-27/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4241-27/art-8/par-1: 前条第一項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2022-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/346AC0000000068/20221001_504AC0000000012), retrieved 2026-10-09
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4630/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-employment-act-20261009T093722-005, translated 2026-10-09
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-employment-act-20261009T093722-006, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 164 — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09