If a business specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is conducted through multiple contracted work, the provisions of this Act apply to the business as one single business, and only the master contractor is deemed to be the business operator thereof.
厚生労働省令で定める事業が数次の請負によつて行なわれる場合には、この法律の規定の適用については、その事業を一の事業とみなし、元請負人のみを当該事業の事業主とする。
In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if the master contractor and the subcontractor apply for the application of the provision of the same paragraph to a business pertaining to a contract undertaken by the subcontractor, and obtain the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the provision of the same paragraph apply by deeming that the subcontractor is the master contractor in respect of the business pertaining to the contract.