# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

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- Law: 外国為替及び外国貿易法 (Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act), 昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号
- English title "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-3621-89/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-3621-89/art-8
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### 第八条
<sup>suppl-3621-89/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-3621-89/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-3621-89/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にした行為及び前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-3621-89/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-3621-89/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-3621-89/art-8/par-1</sup>
The provisions then in force continue to govern the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before this Act comes into effect and to conduct engaged in after this Act comes into effect in the cases in which prior laws are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3621-89/art-8/par-1: 前条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-3621-89/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-3621-89/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-3621-89/art-7

## Cited by

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

- 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-3621-89/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-3621-89/art-9/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-11-05
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act-20261105T150743-005, translated 2026-11-06
- This site's parser, version 225 — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05
