# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

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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
- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（時間外及び休日の労働に係る協定に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-71/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-17
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### 第二条（時間外及び休日の労働に係る協定に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Agreements on Off-Hours Work and Work on Days Off
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<sup>suppl-4301-71/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  第一条の規定による改正後の労働基準法（以下「新労基法」という。）第三十六条の規定（新労基法第百三十九条第二項、第百四十条第二項、第百四十一条第四項及び第百四十二条の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）は、平成三十一年四月一日以後の期間のみを定めている協定について適用し、同年三月三十一日を含む期間を定めている協定については、当該協定に定める期間の初日から起算して一年を経過する日までの間については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4301-71/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-2/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 36 of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as "the New Labor Standards Act") (including the case where those provisions are applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 139, paragraph (2), Article 140, paragraph (2), Article 141, paragraph (4) and Article 142 of the New Labor Standards Act) apply to an agreement that specifies only a period on or after April 1, 2019, and with regard to an agreement that specifies a period that includes March 31 of that year, the provisions then in force continue to govern until the day on which one year elapses counting from the first day of the period specified in that agreement.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4301-71/art-2/par-1: 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-2/par-1: 新労基法第百三十九条第二項 → 労働基準法 附則第百三十九条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 139, paragraph (2)), suppl-3221-49/art-139/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-139/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-139/par-2
- suppl-4301-71/art-2/par-1: 第百四十条第二項 → 労働基準法 附則第百四十条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 140, paragraph (2)), suppl-3221-49/art-140/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-140/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-140/par-2
- suppl-4301-71/art-2/par-1: 第百四十一条第四項 → 労働基準法 附則第百四十一条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 141, paragraph (4)), suppl-3221-49/art-141/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-141/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-141/par-4
- suppl-4301-71/art-2/par-1: 第百四十二条 → 労働基準法 附則第百四十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 142), suppl-3221-49/art-142 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-142 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-142

## Cited by

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

- 労働基準法 附則第三条第一項（中小事業主に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-3/par-1
- 労働基準法 附則第三条第二項（中小事業主に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4301-71/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4301-71/art-3/par-2

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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-011, 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
