# 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 / Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

- Law: 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 (Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities), 昭和三十五年法律第百二十三号
- English title "Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities": 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4041-68/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4041-68/art-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4041-68/art-5
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### 第五条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4041-68/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4041-68/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4041-68/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  この法律（附則第一条ただし書に規定する規定については、当該規定）の施行前にした行為（旧法第八十五条第一項第二号に違反する行為に該当するもので、附則第二条の規定により附則第一条ただし書に定める日にその効力を失う旧法第十五条第一項の規定による命令に係るものを除く。）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-4041-68/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4041-68/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4041-68/art-5/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (for the provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions) comes into effect (excluding acts that constitute a violation of Article 85, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Former Act and that relate to an order under Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Former Act which ceases to be in force on the date provided for in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions pursuant to Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4041-68/art-5/par-1: 附則第一条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-4041-68/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4041-68/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4041-68/art-1
- suppl-4041-68/art-5/par-1: 附則第二条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4041-68/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4041-68/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4041-68/art-2

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第二条第一項（身体障害者の雇入れ計画の作成命令に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4041-68/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4041-68/art-2/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-005, translated 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-005, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18
