Chapter I General Provisions
第一章 総則
第一条（目的）
In view of the increasing diversification of work styles in Japan, the purpose of this Act is to ensure proper transactions involving specified entrusted business operators and to improve the working environment for specified persons engaged in entrusted business through measures such as requiring an enterprise that entrusts its business to a specified entrusted business operator to clearly indicate the details of the work to be performed by the specified entrusted business operator and other matters with the goal of developing an environment that will allow individuals to reliably provide services with which they have been entrusted as enterprises and, as a result, contributing to a sound development of the national economy.
第二条（定義）
The term "specified entrusted business operator" as used in this Act means an enterprise that is the other party to the business entrustment and falls under any of the following items:
この法律において「特定受託事業者」とは、業務委託の相手方である事業者であって、次の各号のいずれかに該当するものをいう。
an individual that does not employ any employees;
個人であって、従業員を使用しないもの
a corporation that has no officers (meaning directors, company directors, executive officers, members who execute business, auditors or company auditors, or other equivalent persons; the same applies in paragraph (6), item (ii)) other than a single representative and does not employ any employees.
法人であって、一の代表者以外に他の役員（理事、取締役、執行役、業務を執行する社員、監事若しくは監査役又はこれらに準ずる者をいう。第六項第二号において同じ。）がなく、かつ、従業員を使用しないもの
The term "specified person engaged in entrusted business" as used in this Act means an individual stated in item (i) of the preceding paragraph who is a specified entrusted business operator or the representative of a corporation stated in item (ii) of that paragraph who is a specified entrusted business operator.
The term "business entrustment" as used in this Act means the following acts:
この法律において「業務委託」とは、次に掲げる行為をいう。
as part of its business operations, an enterprise entrusts the manufacture (and processing) of goods or the creation of an information-based product to another enterprise;
事業者がその事業のために他の事業者に物品の製造（加工を含む。）又は情報成果物の作成を委託すること。
as part of its business operations, an enterprise entrusts the provision of services to another enterprise (including an enterprise having services provided to itself by another enterprise).
事業者がその事業のために他の事業者に役務の提供を委託すること（他の事業者をして自らに役務の提供をさせることを含む。）。
The term "information-based product" as used in item (i) of the preceding paragraph means the following:
前項第一号の「情報成果物」とは、次に掲げるものをいう。
programs (meaning programs that are commands sent to a computer and are designed to achieve a single result);
プログラム（電子計算機に対する指令であって、一の結果を得ることができるように組み合わされたものをいう。）
films, broadcast programs, and other programs composed of images, voice, or other acoustic effects;
映画、放送番組その他影像又は音声その他の音響により構成されるもの
products composed of letters, figures, symbols, or combinations of these elements, or products composed of combinations of these elements and colors;
文字、図形若しくは記号若しくはこれらの結合又はこれらと色彩との結合により構成されるもの
beyond what is stated in the preceding three items, products that are similar to those described in those items and are specified by Cabinet Order.
前三号に掲げるもののほか、これらに類するもので政令で定めるもの
The term "entrusting business operator" as used in this Act means an enterprise that entrusts its operations to a specified entrusted business operator.
The term "specified entrusting business operator" as used in this Act means an entrusting business operator that falls under any of the following items:
この法律において「特定業務委託事業者」とは、業務委託事業者であって、次の各号のいずれかに該当するものをいう。
an individual that employs employees;
個人であって、従業員を使用するもの
a corporation that has two or more officers or employs employees.
法人であって、二以上の役員があり、又は従業員を使用するもの
The term "remuneration" as used in this Act means the payment to be made by the entrusting business operator for the work performed by the specified entrusted business operator when the former entrusts its business (or for the provision of services if the business is entrusted pursuant to paragraph (3), item (ii); the same applies below except in Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) and (iii) and Article 8, paragraphs (3) and (4)).