# 所得税法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

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- Law: 所得税法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act), 昭和四十年政令第九十六号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation
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- Provision: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（寄付金控除の対象とされる試験研究法人等に対する寄付金に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3522-64/art-4`
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### 第四条（寄付金控除の対象とされる試験研究法人等に対する寄付金に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Donations to Experimental Research Corporations, etc. Eligible for the Donation Deduction
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3522-64/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/suppl-3522-64/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  新令第二百十五条第二号（試験研究法人等の範囲）の規定は、施行日以後に支出する所得税法第七十八条第一項（寄付金控除）に規定する特定寄付金について適用し、施行日前に支出した当該特定寄付金については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3522-64/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/suppl-3522-64/art-4/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 215, item (ii) (Scope of Experimental Research Corporations, etc.) of the New Order apply to specified donations prescribed in Article 78, paragraph (1) (Donation Deduction) of the Income Tax Act that are made on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern those specified donations made before the Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3522-64/art-4/par-1: 所得税法第七十八条第一項 → 所得税法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act/art-78/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 340AC0000000033)

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 所得税法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-05-22 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/340CO0000000096/20260522_508CO0000000093), retrieved 2026-11-06
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3121/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch income-tax-act-enforcement-order-20261106T173921-101, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 229 — 所得税法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
