①When a designated funds transfer service provider falls under any of the following, it must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect without delay.

②When a designated funds transfer service provider has declined the designation, that designation ceases to be effective.

③When a designated funds transfer service provider intends to decline the designation, it must, no later than 30 days before that day, give public notice to that effect and post a notice to that effect in a place readily visible to the public at all of its business offices.

④When a designated funds transfer service provider has given public notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it must immediately notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to that effect.

In the case where the designation of a designated funds transfer service provider has been rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-6, paragraph (1), if the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in order to ensure the performance of an employer's obligation to pay wages, the provisions of Article 7-2, paragraph (1) and Article 7-5 apply to the person that was the designated funds transfer service provider, by deeming that person to still be a designated funds transfer service provider.

Those equivalent to wages paid in special circumstances or bonus set forth in the proviso of paragraph (2) of Article 24 of the Act shall be listed as follows:

The emergencies set forth in the provisions of Article 25 of the Act shall be listed as follows:

When an employer who regularly employs less than 10 workers adopts such rules that are referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 32-2 or paragraph (2) of Article 35 of the Act, the employer shall make such rules known to the workers, except in cases where such rules are adopted by a written agreement referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 32-2 of the Act (including any resolution by the committee referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 38-4 of the Act set forth in paragraph (5) of the same Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of Article 41-2 of the Act) (such committee shall hereinafter be referred to as a "labor-management committee") (such resolution shall hereinafter be referred to as a "resolution by a labor-management committee") and any resolution by the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements provided for in Article 7 of the Act on Special Measures for Improvement of Working Time Arrangements (Act No. 90 of 1992; hereinafter referred to as the "Improvement of Working Time Arrangements Act") (such resolution shall hereinafter be referred to as a "resolution by the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements")).

①When an employer causes its workers to work under the conditions pursuant to any of the provisions of Articles 32-2 to 32-4 of the Act, the employer shall clearly indicate the initial date of the period prescribed in Articles 32-2 to 32-4 of the Act in the rules of employment or its equivalent or in a written agreement (including any resolution by a labor-management committee or a resolution by the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements).

②When an employer gives its workers holidays under the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 35 of the Act, the employer shall clearly indicate, in the rules of employment or some other equivalent, the initial date of reckoning for a four-week period in which the employer provides four or more days off.

①An agreement under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 32-2 of the Act (excluding the case where it is by way of collective agreement, and including a resolution of a labor-management or resolution of a committee on the improvement of working time arrangements )shall set forth a validity period .

②A notification under the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 32-2 of the Act shall be submitted according to Form No. 3-2 to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned.

①The matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in Article 32-3, paragraph (1) of the Act (including as applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), item (iv) are to be the following.

②The notification under the provisions of Article 32-2, paragraph (2) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 32-3, paragraph (4) of the Act must be made to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned using Form No. 3-3.

①Matters prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to item (v) of paragraph (1) of Article 32-4 of the Act which shall be fixed by a written agreement under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 32-4 of the Act (excluding the case where it is by way of collective agreement, and including a resolution of a labor-management or resolution of a committee on the improvement of working time arrangements) shall be a stipulation for the valid period of the agreement.

②The employer shall establish stipulations in paper form under the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 32-4 of the Act.

③When the applicable period referred to in item (ii) of paragraph (1) of Article 32-4 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "the applicable period" in this Article) exceeds three months, annual working days stipulated by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in paragraph (3) of Article 32-4 of the Act shall be limited to 280 days in the applicable period. However, in cases where the applicable period exceeds three months and there is an agreement with its applicable period of over three months, falling anytime during the one year prior to the first day of the aforementioned applicable period, (including resolution by a labor-management or resolution by the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements) (if there had been more than one agreement, an agreement just before the new agreement shall be applicable; hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "the former agreement") under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 32-4 of the Act yearly working days shall be shorter one, either days determined by subtracting one day from the yearly working days in the applicable period stipulated under the former agreement or 280 days, if the daily limited working hours exceed longer one, either the daily limited working hours stipulated under the former agreement or nine hours, or the weekly limited working hours exceed longer one, either the weekly limited working hours stipulated under the former agreement or 48 hours.

④Daily working hours and weekly working hours stipulated by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in paragraph (3) of Article 32-4 of the Act shall be limited to 10 hours per day and 52 hours per week respectively. In this case, if the applicable period exceeds three months, the conformity both of the following items shall be established.

⑤The number of consecutive days on which an employer may have workers work in the applicable period provided in Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in paragraph (3) of Article 32-4 of the Act shall be limited to six days; and the number of consecutive days on which an employer may have workers work in the specified period set forth in the written agreement referred to in paragraph (1) of the Article (including resolutions of the labor-management committee and resolutions of the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements) shall be limited to the number of days that shall enable workers to have one day off per week.

⑥A notification referred to in the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 32-2 of the Act applied mutatis mutandis under the provisions of paragraph (4) of Article 32-4 of the Act must be submitted according to Form No. 4 to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned.

①Businesses prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 32-5 of the Act shall be businesses of retailers, hotels, restaurants, and eating and drinking places.

②The number prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 32-5 of the Act shall be 30 persons.

③A notice of working hours for each day of a week pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 32-5 of the Act shall be given in writing at least before the first day of the week. However, if there is an urgent and unavoidable reason, the employer may change the working hours previously notified by notifying the relevant worker in writing by the day prior to the date on which the employer intends to change the said previously notified working hours.

④A notification referred to in the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 32-2 of the Act applied mutatis mutandis under the provisions of paragraph (3) of Article 32-5 of the Act must be submitted on Form No. 5 to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned.

⑤When an employer has workers work pursuant to the provisions of Article 32-5, the employer shall endeavor to respect the workers' intention when fixing working hours for each day of a week.

When an employer has workers work pursuant to the provisions of Article 32-2, 32-4 or 32-5 of the Act, the employer shall give careful consideration to those who take care of children, those who take care of elderly persons and the like, those who receive vocational training or education, and such other workers who need special consideration so that they may secure time necessary for the child care and the like.

①A permission under the provisions of the main clause of paragraph (1) of Article 33 of the Act must be obtained from the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned, and a notification under the proviso of the same paragraph of the same Article shall be submitted to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned.

②The permission or the notification referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be made pursuit to Form No. 6.

An order under the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 33 of the Act shall be issued in writing according to Form No.7 by the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned.