# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/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 (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 - Kind: Act — 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)（休憩に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4101-112/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/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（休憩に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Breaks caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-112/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行前にされた旧法第三十四条第二項ただし書の許可の申請であって、この法律の施行の際に許可又は不許可の処分がされていないものについての許可又は不許可の処分については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-1 With regard to a disposition granting or denying permission on an application for the permission referred to in the proviso to Article 34, paragraph (2) of the Former Act that was filed before this Act comes into effect and on which no disposition granting or denying permission has been made at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行前に旧法第三十四条第二項ただし書の規定による許可を受けた場合（前項の規定により同項の許可を受けた場合を含む。）における休憩時間については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-2 With regard to breaks in the case where permission under the provisions of the proviso to Article 34, paragraph (2) of the Former Act was obtained before this Act comes into effect (including the case where the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph was obtained pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法 附則第四条第二項（休憩に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4101-112/art-4/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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