# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

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- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（暫定措置） — address `suppl-4029-29/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第二条（暫定措置） — Interim Measures
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4029-29/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4029-29/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4029-29/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  平成五年三月三十一日までの間は、改正後の労働基準法施行規則第二十六条の規定の適用については、同条中「四十四時間」とあるのは、「四十六時間」とする。
<sup>suppl-4029-29/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4029-29/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4029-29/art-2/par-1</sup>
Until March 31, 1993, with respect to the application of the provisions of Article 26 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act after the amendment, the term "44 hours" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "46 hours".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4029-29/art-2/par-1: 労働基準法施行規則第二十六条 → 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

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## 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-015, 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