# 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 / Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

- Law: 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 (Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications), 平成十三年法律第百三十七号
- English title "Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications": claude-opus-5-5
- 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)（調整規定） — address `suppl-5061-25/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/suppl-5061-25/art-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/suppl-5061-25/art-4
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### 第四条（調整規定） — Adjustment Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5061-25/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/suppl-5061-25/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/suppl-5061-25/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の日が刑法等の一部を改正する法律（令和四年法律第六十七号）の施行の日（以下この条において「刑法施行日」という。）前である場合には、この法律の施行の日から刑法施行日の前日までの間における新法第三十五条の規定の適用については、同条中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「懲役」とする。刑法施行日以後における刑法施行日前にした行為に対する同条の規定の適用についても、同様とする。
<sup>suppl-5061-25/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/suppl-5061-25/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/suppl-5061-25/art-4/par-1</sup>
If the date of enforcement of this Act is before the date of enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code (Act No. 67 of 2022) (referred to as the "Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments" in this Article), with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 35 of the New Act during the period from the date of enforcement of this Act until the day preceding the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments, the term "imprisonment" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies to the application of the provisions of that Article, on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments, to acts committed before the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5061-25/art-4/par-1: この条 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-5061-25/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/suppl-5061-25/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/suppl-5061-25/art-4
- suppl-5061-25/art-4/par-1: 新法第三十五条 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十五条 (Article 35), art-35 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-35

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 附則第三条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/suppl-5061-25/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/suppl-5061-25/art-3/par-1
- 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 附則第四条第一項（調整規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/suppl-5061-25/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/suppl-5061-25/art-4/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-10-12
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0000000137/20260717_508AC1000000058), retrieved 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch information-distribution-platform-act-20261011T162317-005, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 189 — 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11
