# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) - Law: 電気工事士法 (Electricians Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百三十九号 - English title "Electricians Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3581-83/art-16` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/suppl-3581-83/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-3581-83/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3581-83/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/suppl-3581-83/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-3581-83/art-16 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第三条、第五条第五項、第八条第二項、第九条又は第十条の規定により従前の例によることとされる場合における第十七条、第二十二条、第三十六条、第三十七条又は第三十九条の規定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-3581-83/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/suppl-3581-83/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-3581-83/art-16/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after the provisions of Articles 17, 22, 36, 37 or 39 come into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, Article 5, paragraph (5), Article 8, paragraph (2), Article 9 or Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 電気工事士法 附則第十四条第一項（その他の処分、申請等に係る経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/suppl-3581-83/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-3581-83/art-14/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 電気工事士法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000139/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 電気工事士法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1788), retrieved 2026-09-23 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch electricians-act-20261019T092227-006, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 電気工事士法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19