# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

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- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（処分等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5051-36/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-2
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### 第二条（処分等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Dispositions
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<sup>suppl-5051-36/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にこの法律による改正前のそれぞれの法律（これに基づく命令を含む。以下この条及び次条において「旧法令」という。）の規定により従前の国の機関がした許可、認可、指定その他の処分又は通知その他の行為は、法令に別段の定めがあるもののほか、この法律の施行後は、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律（これに基づく命令を含む。以下この条及び次条において「新法令」という。）の相当規定により相当の国の機関がした許可、認可、指定その他の処分又は通知その他の行為とみなす。
<sup>suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-1</sup>
Any permission, authorization, designation or other disposition, or notification or other act, made by a former organ of the national government pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts prior to amendment by this Act (including orders based on them; hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as the "Former Laws and Regulations") before this Act comes into effect is, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, deemed, after this Act comes into effect, to be a permission, authorization, designation or other disposition, or notification or other act, made by the corresponding organ of the national government pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (including orders based on them; hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as the "New Laws and Regulations").
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**第二項**  この法律の施行の際現に旧法令の規定により従前の国の機関に対してされている申請、届出その他の行為は、法令に別段の定めがあるもののほか、この法律の施行後は、新法令の相当規定により相当の国の機関に対してされた申請、届出その他の行為とみなす。
<sup>suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-2</sup>
Unless otherwise provided for in laws and regulations, an application, notification, or any other act that has been filed with a former organ of the national government pursuant to the provisions of the Former Laws and Regulations at the time of enforcement of this Act, is deemed, after the enforcement of this Act, to be an application, notification, or any other act that has been filed with the corresponding organ of the national government pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the New Laws and Regulations.
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**第三項**  この法律の施行前に旧法令の規定により従前の国の機関に対して申請、届出その他の手続をしなければならない事項で、この法律の施行の日前に従前の国の機関に対してその手続がされていないものについては、法令に別段の定めがあるもののほか、この法律の施行後は、これを、新法令の相当規定により相当の国の機関に対してその手続がされていないものとみなして、新法令の規定を適用する。
<sup>suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-3</sup>
For matters for which applications, notifications, or other procedures are to be made before the former organs of the national government before the enforcement of this Act pursuant to the provisions of the Former Laws and Regulations, if those procedures have not yet been made before the former organs of the national government before the date of enforcement of this Act, the provisions of the New Laws and Regulations apply after the enforcement of this Act, except those otherwise provided for by laws and regulations, by deeming that the procedures have not yet been made before the corresponding organs of the national government pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the New Laws and Regulations.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-1: この条 → 食品衛生法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-5051-36/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-2
- suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-1: 次条 → 食品衛生法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-5051-36/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-3

## 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（処分等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-2/par-1
- 食品衛生法 附則第六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-36/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-36/art-6/par-1

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## 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-20261102T225259-007, translated 2026-11-03
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-009, 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-20261102T225259-009, 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
