# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3519-31. 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: 労働基準法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年厚生省令第二十三号 - English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3519-31` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3519-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3519-31 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ## 附　則 昭和五一年九月六日労働省令第三一号 suppl-3519-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3519-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3519-31 **第一項** この省令は、昭和五十一年十月一日から施行する。ただし、第七条の前に六条を加える改正規定（第六条に係る部分を除く。）、次項の規定（労働基準法施行規則（昭和二十二年厚生省令第二十三号）第五条に係る部分を除く。）及び附則第三項の規定（労働省組織規程（昭和二十七年労働省令第三十六号）第十八条に係る部分に限る。）は、昭和五十二年四月一日から施行する。 suppl-3519-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3519-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3519-31/par-1 This Ministerial Order comes into effect as of October 1, 1976; provided, however, that the amending provisions adding six Articles before Article 7 (excluding the part pertaining to Article 6), the provisions of the following paragraph (excluding the part pertaining to Article 5 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act (Order of the Ministry of Health and Welfare No. 23 of 1947)) and the provisions of paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the part pertaining to Article 18 of the Rules on the Organization of the Ministry of Labour (Order of the Ministry of Labour No. 36 of 1952)) come into effect as of April 1, 1977. machine translation, not official --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322M40000100023/20260401_508M60000100057), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-013, translated 2026-09-11 - This site's parser, version 222 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10