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省令
Rules issued by a minister, to carry out an Act or Cabinet Order or under a delegation from one. Each is named by its ministry and number, such as Ministry of Justice Order No. 54…
Written by AI using 国家行政組織法, Art. 12 and Wikipedia: 省令 as a reference.
法律
A law passed by both Houses of the National Diet, Japan's parliament. Acts rank below the Constitution. Rules on people's rights and duties are made by Act: a Cabinet Order or Mini…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 41, 59, 98 and Wikipedia: 行政立法 as a reference.
憲法
The highest law in Japan. Every Act, Cabinet Order and Ministerial Order has to conform to it, and anything in conflict with it has no legal force. It is also the hardest law to ch…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 96, 98, e-Gov: 日本国憲法 and its revision history and Wikipedia: Constitution of Japan as a reference.
国会
Japan's parliament, and under Article 41 the only body that can make an Act (法律). It has two chambers, the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, both made up of el…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 41, 42, 43 and Wikipedia: National Diet as a reference.
国務大臣
A member of the Cabinet other than the Prime Minister (Article 66, paragraph (1)). All of them must be civilians, and a majority must be members of the Diet; the Prime Minister app…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 66, 68, 75, 99 and 国家行政組織法, Art. 5 as a reference.
労働基準監督署長
The head of a labor standards inspection office (労働基準監督署), one of the offices under each prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局) that carry out the Labor Standards Act (Labor Standards…
Written by AI using Labor Standards Act, Arts. 97, 99 and Act on Ensuring Wage Payment, Arts. 3, 4, 7, 13, 14 as a reference.
総括安全衛生管理者
The person an employer (事業者) must appoint at each workplace of the size a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, to direct the safety managers (安全管理者), the health managers (衛生管理者) and certain ot…
Written by AI using Industrial Safety and Health Act, Arts. 10, 17, 18, 19, 99-2 as a reference.
安全管理者
A person an employer (事業者) must appoint at each workplace in the industries and of the size a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, from among people with the qualifications an Order of the Min…
Written by AI using Industrial Safety and Health Act, Arts. 10, 11, 17, 19, 19-2, 99-2 as a reference.
衛生管理者
A person an employer (事業者) must appoint at each workplace of the size a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, according to the kinds of work done there, from among people licensed by the direct…
Written by AI using Industrial Safety and Health Act, Arts. 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 19-2, 99-2 as a reference.
産業医
A physician an employer (事業者) must appoint at each workplace of the size a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, to look after workers' health and carry out the other duties an Order of the Min…
Written by AI using Industrial Safety and Health Act, Arts. 13, 13-2, 13-3, 18, 19, 101 as a reference.
作業主任者
A person an employer (事業者) must appoint, for each class of work, where the work needs controls to prevent industrial accidents (労働災害) — work in high-pressure chambers (高圧室内作業) and…
Written by AI using Industrial Safety and Health Act, Arts. 14, 60 as a reference.
自動車検査証
The certificate issued for a motor vehicle that has passed the inspection the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) carries out: a card on which the chas…
Written by AI using Road Transport Vehicle Act, Arts. 2, 34, 36-2, 58, 60, 61, 62, 66, 94-5 as a reference.
特別永住者証明書
The certificate the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency (出入国在留管理庁長官) issues to every special permanent resident (特別永住者) (Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inte…
Written by AI using Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, Arts. 7 to 13, 15, 16, 16-2, 17, 23, 26 as a reference.
公共職業安定所
A national government office that does job placement (職業紹介) between job seekers and employers, vocational guidance and employment insurance (雇用保険) work, and other work the Employme…
Written by AI using Employment Security Act, Art. 8 and Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Art. 23 as a reference.
医道審議会
A council (審議会) set up in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Article 6, paragraph (1)) to deal with th…
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Arts. 6, 10 and Medical Practitioners' Act, Arts. 7, 10, 11, 16-2, 16-3, 16-10, 16-11, 24-2 as a reference.
女性相談支援センター
A center every prefecture (都道府県) must set up, and a designated city (指定都市, one of the large cities a Cabinet Order designates under the Local Autonomy Act) may, under the Act on Su…
Written by AI using Act on Support for Women Facing Difficult Problems, Arts. 2, 9 and Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims, Art. 3 as a reference.
条例
A rule a local government makes for itself: a prefecture (都道府県), a city, town or village (市町村), or one of Tokyo's special wards (特別区) (Local Autonomy Act, Articles 1-3, 281 and 283…
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 94 and Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 1-3, 2, 14, 16, 89, 96, 139, 281, 283 as a reference.
特別永住者
A person who may live in Japan permanently under a status the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty…
Written by AI using Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, Arts. 2 to 5, 7, 17, 22, 23 and Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, Art. 26-2 as a reference.
様式
A prescribed form — the notification or application someone actually has to submit. Forms are usually set out at the end of a Ministerial Order (省令), such as the Ordinance for Enfo…
Written by AI using 労働基準法施行規則, Art. 16 and forms and Upper House Legislative Bureau: 法令中の「図」・「表」 as a reference.
In this Act, a joint Digital Agency Order and Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (デジタル庁令・総務省令).
デジタル庁令・総務省令
In this Act, an order (命令) issued jointly by the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業大臣), except that the orders Article 61, paragraph (1) refers to, on designating corporations (指定法人), are issued by the ministers Article 67, paragraph (1), item (v) names as responsible for designated corporations.
内閣総理大臣及び経済産業大臣が共同で発する命令とする。ただし、第六十一条第一項に規定する主務省令については、第一項第五号に定める主務大臣の発する命令
In this Act, an order (命令) issued by the competent ministers (主務大臣), who are the Minister of Justice (法務大臣) and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣).
主務大臣の発する命令
In this Act, an order (命令) issued jointly by the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣), the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務大臣), the Minister of Justice (法務大臣), the Minister of Finance (財務大臣), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣), the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (農林水産大臣), the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業大臣) and the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣).
内閣総理大臣、総務大臣、法務大臣、財務大臣、厚生労働大臣、農林水産大臣、経済産業大臣及び国土交通大臣が共同で発する命令
In this Act, an order (命令) issued, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology or the competent minister under Article 144-29, paragraph (1) of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act — except that the order under Article 79-8, paragraphs (1) and (2) is issued by the minister with jurisdiction (所管大臣), and the order under Article 79-9, paragraph (1) by the Ministers of Health, Labour and Welfare, of Finance, of Internal Affairs and Communications, and of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
…組合法第百四十四条の二十九第一項の規定による主務大臣の発する命令とする。ただし、次の各号に掲げる主務省令については、当該各号に定めるとおり
In Chapter IV, on funds transfer transaction analysis (為替取引分析), a joint Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance (内閣府令・財務省令) where a funds transfer transaction analysis service provider (為替取引分析業者) carries on the work of Article 2, paragraph (21), item (i), and a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) in any other case.
次の各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める命令
In this Act, an order (命令) issued, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the Prime Minister.
政令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣又は内閣総理大臣の発する命令
耐用年数省令
Short name for the Ministry of Finance Order (大蔵省令) No. 15 of 1965 on the useful life and other matters of depreciable assets (減価償却資産の耐用年数等に関する省令), whose appended tables set the useful lives of tangible depreciable assets.
In Article 30 and Article 33, paragraph (2), the Ministerial Order (省令) on the useful life of depreciable assets (Ministry of Finance Order No. 15 of 1965) as it stood before Ministry of Finance Order No. 32 of 2008 amended it.
Short name for Ministry of Justice Order No. 16 of 1990, which sets the criteria referred to in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act: the criteria a foreign national coming to Japan for the activities in Appended Table I(2) or I(4) of that Act must meet to be allowed to land.
Short name for the Ministerial Order (省令) setting the standards for employment contracts for specified skilled workers (特定技能雇用契約) and support plans for specified skilled workers (i) (一号特定技能外国人支援計画), Ministry of Justice Order No. 5 of 2019.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Article 2 of Ministry of Justice Order No. 37 of 2012.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before its amendment by Ministry of Justice Order No. 37 of 2012, as the table in Article 6 of that Order's supplementary provisions (附則) names it.
The row, in the table of the Ministerial Order on Criteria (基準省令) that sets the landing criteria under Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, for the activities of the Entertainer (興行) status of residence in Appended Table I(2) of that Act.
Short name for Ministry of Justice Order No. 37 of 2014, which sets the criteria in the Highly Skilled Professional (高度専門職) row of Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act.
Short name for Ministry of Justice Order No. 25 of 2023, which sets the criteria for special highly skilled professionals (特別高度人材).
Short name for Ministry of Justice Order No. 16 of 1990, which sets the criteria referred to in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act: the criteria a foreign national coming to Japan for the activities in Appended Table I(2) or I(4) of that Act must meet to be allowed to land.
Short name for the Ministry of Justice Order that amended the Ministerial Order on Criteria (基準省令), which sets the landing criteria under Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act: Order No. 10 of 2010 in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Order No. 9 of 2010, and Order No. 35 of 2014 in those of Order No. 34 of 2014.
Each of the Ministerial Orders (省令) as it stood before Ministry of Justice Order No. 7 of 2019, the amending Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, amended it.
The former Ministerial Order (省令) specifying particular statuses of residence and their periods of stay (特定の在留資格及びその在留期間を定める省令), which Ministry of Justice Order No. 54 of 1981 — the Ministerial Order that is this Regulation — abolished.