# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3629-31/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-3629-31/art-4` - 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-3629-31/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3629-31/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-3629-31/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3629-31/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3629-31/art-4 **第一項** 昭和六十六年三月三十一日までの間は、新規則第二十六条の規定の適用については、同条中「四十六時間」とあるのは「四十八時間」とする。 suppl-3629-31/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3629-31/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3629-31/art-4/par-1 Until March 31, 1991, with respect to the application of the provisions of Article 26 of the New Rules, the term "46 hours" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "48 hours". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3629-31/art-4/par-1: 新規則第二十六条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第二十六条 (Article 26), art-26 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-26 --- ## 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-20260918T121515-002, translated 2026-09-18 - 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