Article 41Special Provisions for Employees Working for the National Government

①To apply the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) and the preceding Article to a ministry or agency (meaning an organization provided for in Article 49, paragraph (1) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office (Act No. 89 of 1999) or Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act (Act No. 120 of 1948); the same applies hereinafter) that, based on the application of that ministry's or agency's appointer and the appointer of an external bureau and other organizations (meaning the organizations provided for in Article 49, paragraph (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office, or commissions and agencies provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2) and extraordinary organizations provided for in Article 8-3 of the National Government Organization Act; the same applies hereinafter), has been approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as a ministry or agency that may accelerate the hiring of qualifying disabled employees as a single entity (hereinafter referred to as the "approved ministry or agency"), the employees who work at those external bureaus and other organizations are deemed to be employees who work solely at that approved ministry or agency, and those external bureaus and other organizations are deemed to be that approved ministry or agency.

②If, after the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has granted the approval under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the approved ministry or agency or an external bureau or other organization is disestablished or the Minister finds that the approved ministry or agency or an external bureau or other organization has become unable to accelerate the hiring of qualifying disabled employees, the Minister may revoke that approval.