Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees

The Within the extent necessary for enforcing the provisions of this Chapter (excluding the following Section), the competent ministers may order a current or former implementing organization for employment for skill development (hereinafter referred to as "implementing organization for employment for skill development, etc." in this paragraph and in paragraph (1) of the following Article), a current or former supervising and support organization (hereinafter referred to as "supervising and support organization, etc." in this paragraph, paragraph (1) of the following Article, and Article 35, paragraph (1)), or a current officer or employee of an implementing organization for employment for skill development, etc., or supervising and support organization, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "employee or officer" in this paragraph), or a former employee or officer (hereinafter referred to as "employee or officer, etc." in this paragraph and in paragraph (1) of the following Article) to make a report or submit or present books and documents, or request the appearance of the implementing organization for employment for skill development, etc., or employee or officer, etc., or have officials of the competent ministries ask questions to relevant persons, or enter the premises of the places of business of the implementing organization for employment for skill development, etc., or the supervising and support organization, etc., or other sites related to the technical intern training employment for skill development to inspect their facilities, books, documents, or other items within the extent necessary to enforce the provisions of this Chapter (excluding the following section).

administrative affairs requesting the implementing organization for employment for skill development, etc., or the supervising and support organization, etc., or employee or officer, etc., to make the necessary reports or submit or present the necessary books and documents; and

administrative affairs relating to the questioning of have their officials ask questions to relevant persons or conduct on-site inspections of the equipmentfacilities, books, documents and, or other items of anthe implementing organization for employment for skill development, etc., or the supervising and support organization, etc. by the OTIT's staff.

If the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare find that an implementing organization for employment for skill development has not conducted technical intern training provided employment for skill development in accordance with the accredited employment-for-skill-development plan, or an implementing organization for employment for skill development is in violation of the provisions of this Act, the provisions of or other lawlaws related to immigration or labor, or any order based on these provisions;, and it is necessary in order to ensure the proper implementation of technical intern training, the Commissioner and Ministeremployment for skill development, they may order the implementing organization for employment for skill development to take necessary measures to improve the situation by a set deadline.

The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may revoke the accreditation of training in cases coming underemployment for skill development, when any of the following items applies:

the Commissioner and the Minister find that the implementing organization for employment for skill development has not conducted the technical intern trainingprovided employment for skill development in accordance with the accredited employment-for-skill-development plan;

the Commissioner and the Minister find that the accredited employment-for-skill-development plan does not conformno longer conforms to oneany of the items of Article 9, paragraph (1) or (2), the items of Article 9-2 or the items of Article 9-3;

the implementing organization for employment for skill development has come to fall under one of the items of Article 10;

If the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare have revoked the accreditation of training employment for skill development pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they must giveissue public notice to that effect.

If an implementing organization for employment for skill development has commenced technical intern trainingprovided employment for skill development for the first time after it comes to serve as the implementing organization for employment for skill development, it must notify the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of the date of the commencement of training employment for skill development and other mattersparticulars as provided for byin order of the competent ministryministries without delay after the commencement.

The provisions of Article 8-3 apply mutatis mutandis to the administrative affairs relating to acceptance of the notification under the preceding paragraph.

The Commissioneraccreditation of employment for skill development related to the Immigration Services Agency and previous accredited employment-for-skill-development plan when a skill development employee becomes the Ministersubject of Health, Labour and Welfare may entrust the OTIT with administrative affairs relating employment for skill development under the employment-for-skill-development plan newly accredited under Article 8-5, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "new employment-for-skill development plan" in this Article) is to cease to be effective on the acceptancedate of the commencement of employment for skill development specified in the new employment-for-skill-development plan provided, however, that this does not apply when the notification or notice under paragraph (1) or (2) of the precedingfollowing Article has been submitted by the implementing organization for employment for skill development whose new employment-for-skill-development plan has been accredited by that date, or if the notification under Article 33, paragraph (1) has been submitted by the supervising and support organization from which the implementing organization for employment for skill development receives supervision and support.

If it has become difficult an organization implementing individual-enterprise-type employment for an organization implementing individual-enterprise-type technical intern training to conduct that trainingskill development faces difficulty in providing individual-enterprise-type employment for skill development, it must , without delay, notify the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare without delay of the names of its individual-enterprise-type technical intern traineesskill development employees for whom it has become difficult to conduct that trainingprovide individual-enterprise-type employment for skill development, the measures to be taken to ensure the continuation of their trainingemployment for skill development for those individual-enterprise-type skill development employees, and other mattersparticulars as provided for by Orderin order of the competent ministries.

If it has become difficult an organization implementing supervising-organization-type employment for an organization implementing supervising-organization-type technical intern training to conduct that trainingskill development faces difficulty in providing supervising-organization-type employment for skill development, it must notify , without delay, give the supervising and support organization without delay from which it receives supervision and support notice of the names of its supervising-organization-type technical intern traineesskill development employees for whom it has become difficult to conduct that trainingprovide supervising-organization-type employment for skill development, the measures to be taken to ensure the continuation of their trainingemployment for skill development for those supervising-organization-type skill development employees, and other mattersparticulars as provided for by Orderin order of the competent ministryministries.

The provisions of If the employment for skill development provided by the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to administrative affairs implementing organization for employment for skill development facing difficulty in providing the employment for skill development is the acceptance of notifications employment for skill development at a corporation with a close relationship, the notification under paragraph (1) or the notice under the preceding paragraph must be submitted or given jointly by all of the relevant implementing organizations for employment for skill development that jointly provide the employment for skill development.

If the employment for skill development provided by the organization implementing supervising-organization-type employment for skill development facing difficulty in providing the supervising-organization-type employment for skill development is the supervising-organization-type employment for skill development through worker dispatch, etc., the organization implementing supervising-organization-type employment for skill development must immediately give notice to that effect to other organizations implementing supervising-organization-type employment for skill development that jointly provide the supervising-organization-type employment for skill development. In this case, if the organization implementing supervising-organization-type employment for skill development facing difficulty in providing the supervising-organization-type employment for skill development is a client in Japan, the notice under paragraph (2) must be given by the staffing provider in Japan, etc., that has received the notice under the first sentence of this paragraph.

The provisions of Article 8-3 apply mutatis mutandis to the administrative affairs relating to acceptance of the notification under paragraph (1).

Implementing organizations for employment for skill development (limited to those providing employment for skill development at those places of business) must prepare books and documents as provided for by Orderin order of the competent ministries in connection with technical intern training, employment for skill development and keep them at the placethose places of business where the technical intern training is being conducted.

If the employment for skill development provided by implementing organizations for employment for skill development is the supervising-organization-type employment for skill development through worker dispatch, etc., staffing providers in Japan, etc. out of those implementing organizations for employment for skill development must prepare books and documents provided for in order of the competent ministries in connection with the employment for skill development of skill development employees as the subject of worker dispatch, etc., and keep them at the places of business where the duties related to the employment for skill development are conducted (excluding the places of business providing employment for skill development that do not carry out operations related to the worker dispatch, etc.).

If an implementing organization for employment for skill development has conducted technical intern trainingprovided employment for skill development, it must prepare a report on the status of implementation of employment for skill development and submit a reportit to the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare on the status of implementation, as provided for in order of that training, pursuant to the competent ministries. In this case, when the employment for skill development provided by the provisions of Orders implementing organization for employment for skill development is the employment for skill development at a corporation with a close relationship or the supervising-organization-type employment for skill development through worker dispatch, etc., all of the competent ministryrelevant implementing organizations for employment for skill development must jointly prepare and submit the report.

The provisions of Article 188-3 apply mutatis mutandis to the administrative affairs relating to acceptance of the report and its retention under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "request under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or notification under either of paragraphs (2), (6) or (7) of the same Article," the term "these," and the phrase "the request or the notification" in paragraph (2) of the same Article are deemed to be replaced with "the submission of the report under the provision of Article 21, paragraph (1)", "the same paragraph", and "the submission of the report," respectively. The phrase "request or notification" and "to that effect" in paragraph (3) of the same Article are deemed to be replaced with "the report" and "to that effect and the content of the report," respectively.

Beyond what is provided forstated in this Section, the necessary mattersparticulars relating to the implementation of procedures for accreditation of technical intern trainingemployment-for-skill-development plans and other provisions of this Section are provided for by Orderin order of the competent ministryministries.