# 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 — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4171-81/art-8`
- 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-4171-81/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4171-81/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-4171-81/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4171-81/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4171-81/art-8</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（旧法第八十六条第二号に該当するもので、附則第三条の規定により施行日にその効力を失う旧法第四十六条第一項の規定による命令に係るものを除く。）及び附則第四条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-4171-81/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4171-81/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4171-81/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions) comes into effect (excluding acts that fall under Article 86, item (ii) of the Former Act and that pertain to an order under Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Former Act that ceases to be effective on the Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions) 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 Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4171-81/art-8/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-4171-81/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4171-81/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4171-81/art-1
- suppl-4171-81/art-8/par-1: 附則第三条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4171-81/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4171-81/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4171-81/art-3
- suppl-4171-81/art-8/par-1: 附則第四条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4171-81/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4171-81/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4171-81/art-4

## 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 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4171-81/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4171-81/art-1/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-20261018T205639-008, 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
