# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)

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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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) — address `suppl-4129-41/art-6`
- 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-4129-41/art-6
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4129-41/art-6
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### 第六条
<sup>suppl-4129-41/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-41/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4129-41/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  この省令の施行の際現に提出され又は交付されているこの省令による改正前のそれぞれの省令に定める様式による申請書等は、この省令による改正後のそれぞれの省令に定める相当様式による申請書等とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4129-41/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4129-41/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4129-41/art-6/par-1</sup>
Written applications, etc. in accordance with the Forms prescribed in the respective Ministerial Orders prior to the amendment by this Ministerial Order that have actually been submitted or issued at the time this Ministerial Order comes into effect are deemed to be written applications, etc. in accordance with the corresponding Forms prescribed in the respective Ministerial Orders as amended by this Ministerial Order.
<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-017, 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