# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

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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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4129-2/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第三条
<sup>suppl-4129-2/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-2/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  この省令の施行前に改正前のそれぞれの省令の規定によりされた処分等の行為又はこの省令の施行の際現に改正前のそれぞれの省令の規定によりされている申請等の行為で、この省令の施行の日においてこれらの行為に係る行政事務を行うべき者が異なることとなるものは、この省令の施行の日以後における改正後のそれぞれの省令の適用については、改正後のそれぞれの省令の相当規定によりされた処分等の行為又は申請等の行為とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4129-2/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-2/art-3/par-1</sup>
A disposition or other act made pursuant to the provisions of the respective Ministerial Orders prior to the amendment before this Ministerial Order comes into effect, or an application or other act that has actually been made pursuant to the provisions of the respective Ministerial Orders prior to the amendment at the time this Ministerial Order comes into effect, for which the person that is to perform the administrative affairs pertaining to those acts becomes different as of the date on which this Ministerial Order comes into effect, is deemed, with regard to the application of the respective Ministerial Orders as amended on or after the date on which this Ministerial Order comes into effect, to be a disposition or other act or an application or other act made pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the respective Ministerial Orders as amended.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-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
