# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4021-70. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 食品衛生法 (Food Sanitation Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二百三十三号 - English title "Food Sanitation Act": 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4021-70` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4021-70 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4021-70 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ## 附　則 平成二年六月二九日法律第七〇号 suppl-4021-70 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4021-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4021-70 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4021-70/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4021-70/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4021-70/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成三年四月一日から施行する。ただし、第十二条第三項及び附則第五条（厚生省設置法（昭和二十四年法律第百五十一号）第五条第二十八号の改正規定に限る。）の規定は公布の日から、第十三条第三号、第四章（第十六条第一項、第二項、第八項及び第九項並びに第十七条第一項第四号（同号に規定する届出食肉販売業者についての届出に係る部分に限る。）を除く。）、第二十五条、第二十六条第三項、第三十二条、第三十五条、第四十一条第一項及び第二項、第四十二条、第四十五条第三号及び第四号、第四十六条第三号から第六号まで、第五十条第二号並びに附則第三条（食品衛生法第五条の改正規定に限る。）の規定は平成四年四月一日から施行する。 suppl-4021-70/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4021-70/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4021-70/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 1991; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (3) and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the provisions amending Article 5, item (xxviii) of the Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (Act No. 151 of 1949)) come into effect as of the date of promulgation, and the provisions of Article 13, item (iii), Chapter IV (excluding Article 16, paragraphs (1), (2), (8) and (9) and Article 17, paragraph (1), item (iv) (limited to the part pertaining to the notification concerning a notified meat retailer prescribed in that item)), Article 25, Article 26, paragraph (3), Article 32, Article 35, Article 41, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 42, Article 45, items (iii) and (iv), Article 46, items (iii) through (vi), and Article 50, item (ii), and Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the provisions amending Article 5 of the Food Sanitation Act) come into effect as of April 1, 1992. machine translation, not official ### 第四条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4021-70/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4021-70/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4021-70/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第二条第一項の規定により従前の例によるもの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。 suppl-4021-70/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4021-70/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4021-70/art-4/par-1 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 case where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 食品衛生法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000233/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-002, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-003, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-003, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02