Supplementary Provisions

(Date of Enforcement)

Article 1.  This Ministry of Labour Ordinance shall be effective from October 1, 1972.

(Abolition)

Article 2.  Ordinance on Prevention of Organic Solvent Poisoning (Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 24 of 1960) shall be abolished.

(Interim Measures)

Article 3.  The provisions of Chapters II and III shall not be applied to the organic solvent work related with 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane in the period until September 30, 1973.

Supplementary Provisions

(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 26 of September 30, 1975)

(Date of Enforcement)

Article 1.  This Ministry of Labour Ordinance shall be effective from October 1, 1975.

(The rest is omitted.)

Supplementary Provisions

(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 32 of August 7, 1978)

(Date of Enforcement)

Article 1.  This Ministry of Labour Ordinance shall be effective from September 1, 1978. Whereas, the date of enforcement shall be December 1, 1978 for the amendment of paragraph 1 of Article 16, the amendment of all of paragraph 2 of Article 29, the amendment to add one paragraph to the Article, the amendment of Article 30, the amendment to add two articles next to the Article (restricted to the passage pertinent to Article 30-2), the amendment of Article 31 (except the passage of changing "the preceding Article" to "Article 30"), the amendment of the Attached Table, the amendment to add one table after the Attached Table, the amendment of Form No. 3 and the amendment to add one form after the same Form.

(Interim Measures)

Article 2.  Regarding the application of the provisions of Chapters 2, 3 and 7 (except that of the provision of Article 37) of the Ordinance on Prevention of Organic Solvent Poisoning which have been revised in accordance with the provision of Article 1 of said Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as 'the new Ordinance'), the materials specified in the left column of the following table shall be those specified in the right column of the same table, until February 28, 1979, which may be specified or classified by the provisions of Article 1 (except item 3 of the same Article) of the Ordinance on Prevention of Organic Solvent Poisoning prior to the revision in accordance with Article 1 of the Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as 'the former Ordinance'), if this Ordinance is applied on the assumption that there has been no revision of the Enforcement Order of Industrial Safety and Health Law in accordance with the Cabinet Order on the partial revision of the Enforcement Order of Industrial Safety and Health Law (Cabinet Order No. 226 of 1978), regardless of the provisions of items (2) through (5) of paragraph 1 of Article 1 of the new Ordinance.

2.  The provisions of Article 19 and 26 (exclusive of item (3) through (5) of the former Ordinance shall be effective until August 31, 1980 (exclusive of the period that an employer appoints an operations chief of work handling organic solvent in compliance with the provision of paragraph 2 of Article 19 of the new Ordinance.

3.  Omitted as the interim measures are not effective after February 28, 1979.

Supplementary Provisions

(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 41 of March 1, 1979)

(Date of Enforcement)

Article 1.  This Ministry of Labour Ordinance shall be effective from March 1,1979.

(Interim Measures)

Article 2.  Omitted as the interim measures are not effective after February 29, 1980.

2.  The approval granted by the Chief of the competent Labour Standards Inspection Office in line with item (2) of paragraph 1 of Article 13 of the former Ordinance shall be deemed to have been made by the Chief of the competent Labour Standards Inspection Office in compliance with the provision of paragraph 1 of Article 13 of new Ordinance after the revision.

3.  Omitted as the interim measures pertaining to the performance of local exhaust ventilating system are not effective after February 29, 1980.

4.  Precedent shall be followed in applying penal provisions to the infringement of the provisions of the former Ordinance committed before the date of enforcement of this Ministry of Labour Ordinance.

Supplementary Provisions

(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 1 of January 31, 1984)

1.  This ministerial ordinance shall be enforced from February 1, 1984.

2.  The penal provision to acts committed prior to the enforcement of this ministerial ordinance shall be applied according to precedent.

Supplementary Provision

(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 3 of February 27, 1984)

1.  This ministerial ordinance shall be enforced from March 1, 1984.

Supplementary Provision

(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 8 of March 18, 1986)

This ministerial ordinance shall be enforced from April 1, 1986.

Supplementary Provisions

(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 26 of September 1, 1988)

(Date of Enforcement)

Article 1.  This ministerial ordinance shall be enforced from October 1, 1988, provided that among the provisions of Article 1, the provision to amend paragraph 1 of Article 28, and the provision of Article 4 shall be enforced from April 1, 1990.

(Interim Measures)

Article 2.    The provisions of Articles 28-2 through 28-4 of the amended Ordinance on Prevention of Organic Solvent Poisoning shall not be applicable to the measurement conforming to the provision of paragraph 1 or 5 of Article 65 of the Industrial Safety and Health Law relating to the indoor work sites designated in paragraph 2, Article 28 of the old Ordinance on Prevention of Organic Solvent Poisoning enforced prior to the enforcement of this ministerial ordinance.

Supplementary Provisions

(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 23 of June 30, 1989)

1.      This ministerial ordinance shall be enforced from October 1, 1989.

2.      The application of penal provisions to acts committed before the date of enforcement of this Ordinance shall be according to precedent.

Supplementary Provisions

             (Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 30 of December 18, 1990)

This Ordinance shall be enforced from January 1, 1991 .

Supplementary Provisions

             (Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 20 of March 30, 1994)

(Excerpts)

(Date of Enforcement)

             Article 1. This Ordinance shall be enforced from July 1, 1994.

(Interim Measures for Notification of Plans)

             Article 2. Notification based on the provisions of paragraph 1 (omitted) of Article 37 of the Ordinance on Prevention of Organic Solvent Poisoning prior to amendment by this Ordinance (called the "former Organic Solvent Ordinance" below) concerning construction to commence after the date of enforcement of this Ordinance (called the "enforcement date" below) will be regarded as valid notification under paragraph 1 of Article 88 of the Industrial Safety and Health Law (called the "Law" below) after the enforcement date of this Ordinance.

             2. Notification based on the provisions of paragraph 3 (omitted) of Article 37 of the former Organic Solvent Ordinance concerning construction to commence after the enforcement date shall be regarded as valid notification under the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 88 of the Law to which the provisions of paragraph 2 of the same Article shall apply.

             3. Omitted

             4. Omitted

(Interim Measures Concerning Penal Provisions)

             Article 5. The application of penal provisions to acts committed before the enforcement of this Ordinance and acts committed after the enforcement of this Ordinance that are to be treated according to precedent under the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions shall be according to precedent.

Supplementary Provisions

             (Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 35 of September 13, 1996)

(Excerpts)

(Date of Enforcement)

             Article 1. This Ordinance shall be enforced from October 1, 1996.

Supplementary Provisions

             (Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 13 of March 25, 1997

(Excerpts)

(Date of Enforcement)

             Article 1. This Ordinance shall be enforced from the date of promulgation. However, the provisions set forth in each of the following items shall be enforced from the date stipulated in each of the said following items.

1) (Omitted)

2) (Omitted) The contents of the Ordinance of the Prevention of Organic Solvent Poisoning in Article 4, the provision amending Article 18, the provision adding two Articles to follow Article 18 of the same Ordinance, paragraph 1 of Article 28-2 of the same Ordinance, paragraph 2 of Article 32, paragraph 2 of Article 33, the provision amending Article 33-2 and Article 34 and the provision in the same Ordinance to add a form after Form 2: October 1, 1997

(Interim Measures)

             Article 2. The application of penal provisions to acts committed before the enforcement of this Ordinance shall be according to precedent.

Supplementary Provisions

               (Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 4 of January 11, 1999)

(Date of Enforcement)

1.    This Ordinance shall be enforced from the date of promulgation.

(Interim Measures)

    2. Pre-amendment forms in existence at the time of enforcement of this Ordinance may be adjusted and used during the interim period.

Attached Table (Refer to Article 29)