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Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance

社会保険労務士法(しゃかいほけんろうむしほう)

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Federation

連合会(れんごうかい)

The Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (全国社会保険労務士会連合会), which the labor and social security attorney's associations (社会保険労務士会) across the country must set up together with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and which, among other work, guides the associations and their members and registers labor and social security attorneys (社会保険労務士) (Article 25-34).

Article 10-2, paragraph (1)
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labor and social security attorney corporation

社会保険労務士法人(しゃかいほけんろうむしほうじん)

A corporation that labor and social security attorneys (社会保険労務士) set up to carry out the work listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i) to (i)-3, (ii) and (iii): preparing and submitting applications and other documents to the authorities, representing clients in those procedures, preparing the books and records the labor and social insurance laws require, and giving advice on labor and social insurance matters.

第二条第一項第一号から第一号の三まで、第二号及び第三号に掲げる業務を行うことを目的として、社会保険労務士が設立した法人

Article 25-6, paragraph (1)
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dispute resolution procedure representation business

紛争解決手続代理業務(ふんそうかいけつてつづきだいりぎょうむ)

Representing a party to a dispute in the conciliation (あつせん), mediation (調停) and private dispute resolution (民間紛争解決手続) procedures listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i)-4 to (i)-6, including advising on those procedures, negotiating a settlement while they run and concluding the settlement agreement; only a specified labor and social security attorney (特定社会保険労務士) may do it.

Article 2, paragraph (2)
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labor and social insurance laws and regulations

労働社会保険諸法令(ろうどうしゃかいほけんしょほうれい)

The laws and regulations on labor and social insurance listed in Appended Table 1 (別表第一), on which a labor and social security attorney's (社会保険労務士) work rests: the Acts listed there, some only in part — labor Acts such as the Labor Standards Act and social insurance Acts such as the Health Insurance Act and the National Pension Act — the orders made under them, and the Administrative Complaint Review Act as far as it concerns appeals under them.

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)
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examination administration

試験事務(しけんじむ)

The work of running the labor and social security attorney examination (社会保険労務士試験), other than deciding who passes, which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may have the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (全国社会保険労務士会連合会) carry out.

Article 10-2, paragraph (1)
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self-employed labor and social security attorney

開業社会保険労務士(かいぎょうしゃかいほけんろうむし)

A labor and social security attorney (社会保険労務士) who, at others' request and for a fee, does the work Article 2 describes as a business, other than a member (社員) of a labor and social security attorney corporation (社会保険労務士法人).

Article 18, paragraph (1)
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the Former Act

旧法(きゅうほう)

This Act as it stood before Act No. 64 of 1981 amended it.

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the New Act

新法(しんぽう)

This Act as amended by Act No. 64 of 1981.

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the Effective Date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 64 of 1981, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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specified labor and social security attorney

特定社会保険労務士(とくていしゃかいほけんろうむし)

A labor and social security attorney (社会保険労務士) who has passed the dispute resolution procedure representation business examination (紛争解決手続代理業務試験) and has had that noted on the attorney's registration under Article 14-11-3, paragraph (1); only such an attorney may represent parties in the dispute resolution procedures listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i)-4 to (i)-6.

Article 2, paragraph (2)
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written application, etc.

申請書等(しんせいしょとう)

Applications, notifications, reports, requests for review, requests for re-examination and other documents submitted to administrative bodies (行政機関等), including an electronic or magnetic record (電磁的記録) made in place of such a document.

行政機関等に提出する申請書、届出書、報告書、審査請求書、再審査請求書その他の書類(その作成に代えて電磁的記録(電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識できない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものをいう。以下同じ。)を作成する場合における当該電磁的記録を含む。)

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)
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electronic or magnetic record

電磁的記録(でんじてききろく)

A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.

電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識できない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)
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representation business examination administration

代理業務試験事務(だいりぎょうむしけんじむ)

The work of running the dispute resolution procedure representation business examination (紛争解決手続代理業務試験), other than deciding who passes, which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may have the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (全国社会保険労務士会連合会) carry out.

Article 13-4, paragraph (1)
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specified labor and social security attorney identification card

特定社会保険労務士証票(とくていしゃかいほけんろうむししょうひょう)

The labor and social security attorney identification card (社会保険労務士証票), marked to show that its holder is a specified labor and social security attorney (特定社会保険労務士), which the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (全国社会保険労務士会連合会) issues once it has noted the attorney's pass in the dispute resolution procedure representation business examination (紛争解決手続代理業務試験) in the roll of labor and social security attorneys (社会保険労務士名簿).

Article 14-11-3, paragraph (2)
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labor and social security attorney's association for the location of the principal office

主たる事務所の所在地の社会保険労務士会(しゅたるじむしょのしょざいちのしゃかいほけんろうむしかい)

The labor and social security attorney's association (社会保険労務士会) set up for the prefecture (都道府県) where a labor and social security attorney corporation (社会保険労務士法人) has its principal office, through which the corporation notifies the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (全国社会保険労務士会連合会) that it has been formed.

Article 25-13, paragraph (1)
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the New Act

新法(しんぽう)

This Act as amended by Act No. 61 of 1993.

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annotation of dispute resolution procedure representation business

紛争解決手続代理業務の付記(ふんそうかいけつてつづきだいりぎょうむのふき)

A note added to a labor and social security attorney's (社会保険労務士) registration that the attorney has passed the dispute resolution procedure representation business examination (紛争解決手続代理業務試験), which the attorney applies for through a labor and social security attorney's association (社会保険労務士会) and the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (全国社会保険労務士会連合会) makes.

Article 14-11-2, paragraph (1)
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disqualification

失格処分(しっかくしょぶん)

A disciplinary action (懲戒処分) that takes away a person's qualification as a labor and social security attorney (社会保険労務士): the third of the three kinds Article 25 lists, after a reprimand and a suspension of business for up to one year.

社会保険労務士の資格を失わせる処分

Article 25, paragraph (1), item (iii)
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specified member

特定社員(とくていしゃいん)

A member (社員) who is a specified labor and social security attorney (特定社会保険労務士), in a labor and social security attorney corporation (社会保険労務士法人) set up to do dispute resolution procedure representation business (紛争解決手続代理業務); in that business only such members have the right and the duty to act for the corporation.

Article 25-15, paragraph (2)
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examiner

試験委員(しけんいいん)

A labor and social security attorney examiner (社会保険労務士試験委員), whom the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (全国社会保険労務士会連合会), when it runs the examination, must have set and mark the questions, chosen from people who meet requirements an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) sets.

Article 25-41, paragraph (1)
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the Effective Date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 61 of 1993, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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agency engaged in administrative execution

行政執行法人(ぎょうせいしっこうほうじん)

An incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人) of the kind Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies defines: one set up by its own Act to carry out, accurately and reliably, public work closely tied to the national government's administrative affairs, under national direction and other substantial government involvement, against a plan to meet targets the government sets for each business year.

Article 5, paragraph (1), item (vii)
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labor and social security attorney's association the attorney would belong to

所属することとなる社会保険労務士会(しょぞくすることとなるしゃかいほけんろうむしかい)

In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 61 of 1993, the labor and social security attorney's association (社会保険労務士会) that a labor and social security attorney (社会保険労務士), already a member of an association when that Act came into effect, would belong to under Article 25-29, paragraph (1) of the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance as amended by that Act, if registered under Article 14-2, paragraph (1) of the amended Act.

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Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, etc.

厚生労働大臣等(こうせいろうどうだいじんとう)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 109 of 2007, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, a Director of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare or of a Regional Branch Bureau, or the Japan Pension Service (日本年金機構), to whom acts of the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency and the other social insurance offices (社会保険庁長官等) are transferred.

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Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, etc.

社会保険庁長官等(しゃかいほけんちょうちょうかんとう)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 109 of 2007, the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency (社会保険庁長官), a Director of a Regional Social Insurance Bureau (地方社会保険事務局長) or the head of a Social Insurance Office (社会保険事務所長).

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dispute resolution procedure

紛争解決手続(ふんそうかいけつてつづき)

In Article 2, paragraph (3), the conciliation (あつせん) and mediation (調停) procedures named in items (i)-4 and (i)-5 of paragraph (1), and the private dispute resolution procedures (民間紛争解決手続) of item (i)-6 conducted by a body the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates.

Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i)
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specified local incorporated administrative agency

特定地方独立行政法人(とくていちほうどくりつぎょうせいほうじん)

A local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人) that the local government (地方公共団体) setting it up names in its articles of incorporation as needing its officers and employees to hold the status of local public employees (地方公務員), because a halt in its work would directly and seriously harm residents' lives or the stability of the local community or economy, or because its neutrality and fairness must be especially secured, as Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act defines it, leaving out one that runs a university or college of technology under Article 21, item (ii) of that Act.

Article 5, paragraph (1), item (vii)
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employed labor and social security attorney

勤務社会保険労務士(きんむしゃかいほけんろうむし)

A labor and social security attorney (社会保険労務士) who works at a business establishment (事業所), including the office of a labor and social security attorney or of a labor and social security attorney corporation (社会保険労務士法人), doing the work Article 2 describes, and who must register that establishment's name and address in the roll of labor and social security attorneys (社会保険労務士名簿).

Article 14-2, paragraph (3)
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examination administration rules

試験事務規程(しけんじむきてい)

The rules on running the labor and social security attorney examination (社会保険労務士試験) that the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (全国社会保険労務士会連合会) must set before it starts that work and have approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and again whenever it changes them.

Article 25-43, paragraph (1)
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Amended Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance

新労務士法(しんろうむしほう)

This Act as amended by Act No. 77 of 1984.

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the New Act

新法(しんぽう)

This Act as amended by Act No. 62 of 2005.

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administrative representation

事務代理(じむだいり)

Acting for a client in an application, notification, report, request for review, request for re-examination or other matter under the labor and social insurance laws and regulations (労働社会保険諸法令) that an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) specifies, or in arguments or statements made to the government body concerned about its investigation or decision on such a matter, other than those such an Order excludes (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)-3).

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i-3)
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individual labor-related dispute

個別労働関係紛争(こべつろうどうかんけいふんそう)

A dispute between an individual worker and an employer over working conditions or other matters of the working relationship, as the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes defines it, but leaving out disputes over the recruitment and hiring of workers, labor disputes (労働争議) under Article 6 of the Labor Relations Adjustment Act, where the parties' claims clash and acts of dispute (争議行為) are happening or likely, and disputes between an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) and its employees under Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Act on Labor Relations of Agency Engaged in Administrative Execution.

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i-5)
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private dispute resolution procedure

民間紛争解決手続(みんかんふんそうかいけつてつづき)

In Article 2, an out-of-court procedure in which a private business, asked by both parties and under a contract with them, mediates a settlement of a civil dispute the parties are able to settle, as Article 2, item (i) of the Act on Promotion of Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (Act No. 151 of 2004) defines it, leaving out the procedures, specified by Cabinet Order (政令), that a body designated under an Act conducts as its dispute resolution work under that Act.

裁判外紛争解決手続の利用の促進に関する法律(平成十六年法律第百五十一号)第二条第一号に規定する民間紛争解決手続

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i-6)
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juridical person, etc.

法人等(ほうじんとう)

In Article 8, items (viii) and (ix), a company or other corporation, including an association or foundation without legal personality, other than a labor union.

Article 8, paragraph (1), item (viii)
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insurance premium

保険料(ほけんりょう)

In Article 14-7, item (iv) and Article 29, the insurance premiums a person must pay under the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance, the Health Insurance Act, the Mariners Insurance Act, the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the National Health Insurance Act, the National Pension Act, the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People or the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, including the national health insurance tax (国民健康保険税) levied under the Local Tax Act.

Article 14-7, paragraph (1), item (iv)
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member, etc.

社員等(しゃいんとう)

In Article 25-9-2 and Article 25-24, paragraph (4), a labor and social security attorney (社会保険労務士) who is a member (社員) or an employee of a labor and social security attorney corporation (社会保険労務士法人).

Article 25-9-2, paragraph (1)
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Amended Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance

新労務士法(しんろうむしほう)

In Article 145 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 34 of 1985, which amended the National Pension Act and other Acts, the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance (Act No. 89 of 1968) as amended by Article 144 of Act No. 34 of 1985.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 145, paragraph (1)
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affairs of the State, etc.

国等の事務(くにとうのじむ)

In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 159, paragraph (1)
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higher administrative agency

上級行政庁(じょうきゅうぎょうせいちょう)

The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 161, paragraph (1)
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the Former Act

旧法(きゅうほう)

In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 62 of 2005, the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance (Act No. 89 of 1968) as it stood before Act No. 62 of 2005 amended it.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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New Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance

新社会保険労務士法(しんしゃかいほけんろうむしほう)

In Article 22 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 67 of 2014, the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance (Act No. 89 of 1968) as amended by Article 108 of Act No. 67 of 2014.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 22, paragraph (1)
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application, etc.

申請等(しんせいとう)

In Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)-3, an application, notification, report, request for review, request for re-examination or other matter under the labor and social insurance laws and regulations (労働社会保険諸法令), limited to those an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) specifies.

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i-3)
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labor and social security attorney's association before the change

変更前の社会保険労務士会(へんこうまえのしゃかいほけんろうむしかい)

In Article 25-29, paragraph (2), the labor and social security attorney's association (社会保険労務士会) a labor and social security attorney (社会保険労務士) belonged to when the attorney's registration was changed under Article 14-4, which the attorney leaves automatically where the change makes another association the attorney's own.

Article 25-29, paragraph (2)
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labor and social security attorney's association after the change

変更後の社会保険労務士会(へんこうごのしゃかいほけんろうむしかい)

In Article 25-29, paragraph (2), the labor and social security attorney's association (社会保険労務士会) a labor and social security attorney (社会保険労務士) would belong to under paragraph (1) of that Article — the one for the prefecture (都道府県) of the attorney's registered office, registered workplace or, failing both, home address — if registered afresh after a change of registration under Article 14-4; where it differs from the attorney's association, the attorney leaves the old one and joins it automatically.

Article 25-29, paragraph (2)
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the New Act

新法(しんぽう)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 64 of 1969, that Act itself, which came into effect on 1 October 1969: the law on developing workers' vocational ability through vocational training and skills testing (職業能力開発促進法, as it is now titled).

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the Effective Date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 34 of 1985, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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the Former Act

旧法(きゅうほう)

This Act as it stood before Act No. 61 of 1993 amended it.

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disposition or other act

処分等の行為(しょぶんとうのこうい)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day that Act comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 160, paragraph (1)
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application or other act

申請等の行為(しんせいとうのこうい)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day that Act comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 160, paragraph (1)
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the agency that made the disposition

処分庁(しょぶんちょう)

The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 161, paragraph (1)
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provisions on qualifications, etc.

資格等に係る規定(しかくとうにかかるきてい)

In Article 12, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 35 of 2001, Article 3, paragraph (1), Article 5, item (v) and Article 8, items (iv) and (ix) of the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance as amended by Article 11 of Act No. 35 of 2001.

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provisions on qualifications, etc.

資格等に係る規定(しかくとうにかかるきてい)

In Article 4, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 30 of 2003, Article 3, paragraph (1), Article 5, item (v) and Article 8, item (ix) of the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance as amended by Article 3 of Act No. 30 of 2003.

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the Effective Date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 106 of 2005, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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General Rules Amendment Act

通則法改正法(つうそくほうかいせいほう)

Short name, in the supplementary provisions of Act No. 67 of 2014, for the 2014 Act amending the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 66 of 2014), on whose effective date Act No. 67 of 2014 comes into effect.

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New Laws and Regulations

新法令(しんほうれい)

In Article 28 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 67 of 2014, each Act that Act amended, as amended by it, together with the orders made under it.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 28, paragraph (1)
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2012 Pension Unification Act

平成二十四年一元化法(へいせいにじゅうよねんいちげんかほう)

Short name, in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 40 of 2020, for the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. to Unify, etc. the Employees' Pension Systems (Act No. 63 of 2012), the 2012 Act to unify the employees' pension systems (被用者年金制度).

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Social Security Agreements Special Provisions Act

協定実施特例法(きょうていじっしとくれいほう)

Short name for the Act on Special Provisions for the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. Incidental to Enforcement of International Social Security Agreements.

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labor and social insurance law affairs

労働社会保険法令事務(ろうどうしゃかいほけんほうれいじむ)

In Appended Table 2 (別表第二), which lists who is exempt from which subjects of the labor and social security attorney examination (社会保険労務士試験), work relating to laws and regulations on labor or social insurance that an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) specifies.

Appended Table 2
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labor laws and regulations

労働諸法令(ろうどうしょほうれい)

In Appended Table 2 (別表第二), the labor Acts listed in items (i) to (xx)-20 of Appended Table 1 (別表第一), from the Labor Standards Act to the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes, the orders made under them, and the Administrative Complaint Review Act as far as it concerns appeals under those Acts and orders.

別表第一第一号から第二十号の二十までに掲げる法律及びこれらの法律に基づく命令並びに行政不服審査法(同表第一号から第二十号の二十までに掲げる法律又はこれらの法律に基づく命令に係る不服申立ての場合に限る。)

Appended Table 2
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social insurance laws and regulations

社会保険諸法令(しゃかいほけんしょほうれい)

In Appended Table 2 (別表第二), the social insurance Acts listed in items (xxi) to (xxxi) of Appended Table 1 (別表第一), such as the Health Insurance Act, the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the National Pension Act, the orders made under them, and the Administrative Complaint Review Act as far as it concerns appeals under those Acts and orders.

別表第一第二十一号から第三十一号までに掲げる法律及びこれらの法律に基づく命令並びに行政不服審査法(同表第二十一号から第三十一号までに掲げる法律又はこれらの法律に基づく命令に係る不服申立ての場合に限る。)

Appended Table 2
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