# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12. 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: 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12)（検討） — address `suppl-4301-71/art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十二条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-71/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12 **第一項** 政府は、この法律の施行後五年を経過した場合において、新労基法第三十六条の規定について、その施行の状況、労働時間の動向その他の事情を勘案しつつ検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-1 If five years have elapsed since this Act came into effect, the government is to review the provisions of Article 36 of the New Labor Standards Act while taking into consideration the status of their enforcement, trends in working hours and other circumstances, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、新労基法第百三十九条に規定する事業及び新労基法第百四十条に規定する業務に係る新労基法第三十六条の規定の特例の廃止について、この法律の施行後の労働時間の動向その他の事情を勘案しつつ引き続き検討するものとする。 suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2 The government is to continue to consider the abolition of the special provisions concerning Article 36 of the New Labor Standards Act for the businesses prescribed in Article 139 of the New Labor Standards Act and the work prescribed in Article 140 of the New Labor Standards Act, while taking into consideration trends in working hours after this Act comes into effect and other circumstances. machine translation, not official **第三項** 政府は、前二項に定める事項のほか、この法律の施行後五年を目途として、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律（以下この項において「改正後の各法律」という。）の規定について、労働者と使用者の協議の促進等を通じて、仕事と生活の調和、労働条件の改善、雇用形態又は就業形態の異なる労働者の間の均衡のとれた待遇の確保その他の労働者の職業生活の充実を図る観点から、改正後の各法律の施行の状況等を勘案しつつ検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3 Beyond the matters provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, the government is, with a target of five years after this Act comes into effect, to review the provisions of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "respective Acts as amended") from the perspective of achieving harmony between work and life, improving working conditions, securing balanced treatment among workers with different forms of employment or forms of work, and otherwise enriching the vocational lives of workers, through the promotion of consultation between workers and employers and other means, while taking into consideration the status of enforcement of the respective Acts as amended and other circumstances, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-1: 新労基法第三十六条 → 労働基準法 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36 - suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2: 新労基法第百三十九条 → 労働基準法 附則第百三十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 139), suppl-3221-49/art-139 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-139 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-139 - suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2: 新労基法第百四十条 → 労働基準法 附則第百四十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 140), suppl-3221-49/art-140 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-140 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-140 - suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2: 新労基法第三十六条 → 労働基準法 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36 - suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3: 前二項 → 労働基準法 附則第十二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12, paragraph (1)), suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-1 - suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3: 前二項 → 労働基準法 附則第十二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12, paragraph (2)), suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-2 - suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3: この項 → 労働基準法 附則第十二条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12, paragraph (3)), suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法 附則第十二条第三項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-12/par-3 --- ## 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-011, translated 2026-09-11 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-20260918T121515-001, translated 2026-09-18 - This site's parser, version 224 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27