# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

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- Law: 労働基準法 (Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年法律第四十九号
- English title "Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation
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- Provision: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（労働時間に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4101-112/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-17
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### 第三条（労働時間に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Working Hours
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4101-112/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  この法律による改正前の労働基準法（以下「旧法」という。）第三十二条の四の規定は、同条第一項の協定（労働時間の短縮の促進に関する臨時措置法（平成四年法律第九十号）第七条に規定する労働時間短縮推進委員会の同項に規定する事項についての決議を含む。）であって、この法律の施行の際同項第二号の対象期間として平成十一年三月三十一日を含む期間を定めているものについては、なおその効力を有する。
<sup>suppl-4101-112/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-3/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 32-4 of the Labor Standards Act prior to amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former Act") remain in force with respect to an agreement under paragraph (1) of that Article (including a resolution, on the matters prescribed in that paragraph, of a working hours reduction promotion committee prescribed in Article 7 of the Act on Temporary Measures for Promoting the Reduction of Working Hours (Act No. 90 of 1992)) that, at the time this Act comes into effect, sets a period that includes March 31, 1999 as the applicable period referred to in item (ii) of that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4101-112/art-3/par-1: 労働時間の短縮の促進に関する臨時措置法（平成四年法律第九十号）第七条 → e-Gov law 404AC0000000090, 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — not held in this collection

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 労働基準法 附則第九条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-9/par-1
- 労働基準法 附則第十条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-10/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000049/20260717_508AC0000000060), retrieved 2026-09-27
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4913/tb), retrieved 2026-09-27
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-006, translated 2026-09-11
- This site's parser, version 224 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27
