The business cooperatives, or federations of cooperatives, set forth in Article 3 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act (Act No. 181 of 1949) or other associations of business operators or federations thereof (excluding associations or federations without legal personality for which no representative is appointed; the same applies hereinafter) may accept the entrustment of the business operators that are the members of the association or the members of an association constituting the federation or other business operators specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (excluding the business operators employing workers in the number exceeding the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), and process the payment of the labor insurance premiums and other matters concerning labor insurance to be conducted by those business operators (excluding the matters concerning stamp insurance premiums; hereinafter referred to as the "labor insurance administrative affairs") pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.
The association of business operators or the federation thereof, when seeking to conduct the services prescribed in the preceding paragraph, must obtain the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
事業主の団体又はその連合団体は、前項に規定する業務を行なおうとするときは、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
The association of business operators or the federation thereof which has obtained the approval set forth in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "labor insurance administrative affairs association"), in seeking to discontinue the services prescribed in paragraph (1), must notify the fact to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare 60 days prior to the discontinuance of the services.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may revoke the approval set forth in paragraph (2) if the labor insurance administrative affairs association violates a provision of this Act, the Industrial Accident Insurance Act, or the Employment Insurance Act or Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on any of those Acts (hereinafter referred to as the "laws and regulations concerning labor insurance"), or if the Minister finds that the association fails to perform the processing of the labor insurance administration affairs that should be conducted by the association or that the processing by the association is significantly unjust.