The provisions of Article 6, paragraph (2), Section 2, Chapter II, Article 16, and Article 17 do not apply to mariners subject to the Mariners Act (Act No. 100 of 1947) (hereinafter referred to as "mariners ").
With regard to mariners, all matters that fall under the authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Directors of Prefectural Labor Bureaus, or heads of Labor Standards Inspection Offices, or labor standards inspectors prescribed in this Act are to be performed by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Directors of District Transport Bureaus (including Directors of Transport Supervision Departments), or officers in charge of the labor affairs of mariners, and the term "Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare" in this Act is deemed to be replaced with "Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism"; the term "hour" in Article 3 is deemed to be replaced with "hour, day, week, or month"; the phrase "workers engaged in light work" in Article 7, item (iv) is deemed to be replaced with "workers whose prescribed working hours are particularly short and workers engaged in light work"; the terms "Article 15, paragraph (2)" and "paragraph (2) of the same Article and Article 17" in Article 19, paragraph (2) are deemed to be replaced with "Article 15, paragraph (2) and Article 35, paragraph (3) and paragraph (7)" and "Article 15, paragraph (2) and Article 35, paragraph (7)" respectively; and the phrases "Article 10, paragraph (1), Article 12, Article 15, paragraph (2), and Article 17," and "the jurisdiction district of Prefectural Labor Bureau" in Article 30, paragraph (1) are be deemed to be replaced with "Article 15, paragraph (2) and Article 35, paragraph (3) and paragraph (7)" and "the jurisdiction districts of District Transport Bureaus or the Transport Supervision Departments (for the District Transport Bureaus specified by Cabinet Order, excluding the jurisdiction district of the Transport Supervision Departments)," respectively.
船員に関しては、この法律に規定する厚生労働大臣、都道府県労働局長若しくは労働基準監督署長又は労働基準監督官の権限に属する事項は、国土交通大臣、地方運輸局長（運輸監理部長を含む。）又は船員労務官が行うものとし、この法律中「厚生労働省令」とあるのは「国土交通省令」と、第三条中「時間」とあるのは「時間、日、週又は月」と、第七条第四号中「軽易な」とあるのは「所定労働時間の特に短い者、軽易な」と、第十九条第二項中「第十五条第二項」とあるのは「第十五条第二項並びに第三十五条第三項及び第七項」と、「同条第二項及び第十七条」とあるのは「第十五条第二項及び第三十五条第七項」と、第三十条第一項中「第十条第一項、第十二条、第十五条第二項及び第十七条」とあるのは「第十五条第二項並びに第三十五条第三項及び第七項」と、「都道府県労働局の管轄区域」とあるのは「地方運輸局又は運輸監理部の管轄区域（政令で定める地方運輸局にあつては、運輸監理部の管轄区域を除く。）」と読み替えるものとする。
When the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the Director of a District Transport Bureau (including the Director of the Transport Supervision Department) finds it necessary taking into account of the living expenses of mariners , the wages of similar mariners , and the ordinary enterprises' ability to pay wages in order to improve the working conditions of low-paid mariners, the Minister or the Director may request study and deliberation by the Council of Transport Policy or a council specified by Cabinet Order established in the District Transport Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Council of Transport Policy, etc.") and establish specified minimum wages applicable to mariners based on its opinions.
The provisions of Article 10, paragraph (2) and Article 11 apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the Council of Transport Policy, etc. submits its opinions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "region" in Article 11, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "business or occupation".
When the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the Director of a District Transport Bureau (including the Director of the Transport Supervision Department) makes a decision pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), if a request is made pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Minister or the Director may suspend the application of the specified minimum wages for a certain field of business for a limited period of time, or decide a different rate of specified minimum wages, based on the opinions of the Council of Transport Policy, etc. under the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph.
The provisions of Article 10, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the Council of Transport Policy, etc. submits its opinions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the Director of a District Transport Bureau (including the Director of the Transport Supervision Department) may decide either to revise or abolish the specified minimum wages applicable to mariners decided pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2), or paragraph (3) of this Article in accordance with the procedure to decide the specified minimum wages, when the Minister or the Director finds this necessary taking into account of the living expenses of mariners, the wages of similar mariners, and the ordinary enterprises' ability to pay the wages .
With regard to a dispatched mariner boarding a vessel prescribed in Article 89, paragraph (1) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948), if the specified minimum wages apply to the business of the person receiving the services of the dispatched mariner or to the occupation of the same type of mariners employed by the person receiving the services of the dispatched mariner, the provisions of Article 4 apply on the basis of the amount of the minimum wages established for the specified minimum wages.