# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（器具及び容器包装の規制に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-46/art-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（器具及び容器包装の規制に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Regulation of Apparatus and Containers and Packages caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-46/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に販売され、販売の用に供するために製造され、若しくは輸入され、又は営業（食品衛生法第四条第七項に規定する営業をいう。）上使用されている器具（同条第四項に規定する器具をいう。）及び容器包装（同条第五項に規定する容器包装をいう。）については、新食品衛生法第十八条第三項及び第五十条の四（第二条の規定の施行の日（以下「第三号施行日」という。）以後にあっては、同条の規定による改正後の食品衛生法（以下「第三号新食品衛生法」という。）第五十三条）の規定は、適用しない。 suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1 With regard to apparatus (meaning apparatus as defined in Article 4, paragraph (4) of the Food Sanitation Act) and containers and packages (meaning containers and packages as defined in Article 4, paragraph (5) of that Act) that, at the time this Act comes into effect, are actually being sold, produced or imported for use in sale, or used in business (meaning business as defined in Article 4, paragraph (7) of that Act), the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (3) and Article 50-4 of the New Food Sanitation Act (on or after the day on which the provisions of Article 2 come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "item (iii) Effective Date"), Article 53 of the Food Sanitation Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "item (iii) New Food Sanitation Act")) do not apply. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1: 食品衛生法第四条第七項 → 食品衛生法 第四条第七項 (Article 4, paragraph (7)), art-4/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-4/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-4/par-7 - suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1: 同条第四項 → 食品衛生法 第四条第四項 (Article 4, paragraph (4)), art-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-4/par-4 - suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1: 同条第五項 → 食品衛生法 第四条第五項 (Article 4, paragraph (5)), art-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-4/par-5 - suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1: 新食品衛生法第十八条第三項 → 食品衛生法 第十八条第三項 (Article 18, paragraph (3)), art-18/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-3 - suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1: 第五十三条 → 食品衛生法 第五十三条 (Article 53), art-53 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 附則第二条第一項（食品等の輸入に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-2/par-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第十三条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-13/par-1 --- ## 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-20261102T225259-008, 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