①The person running a client's business at which a worker has been assigned to do work and which involves dusty tasks as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Pneumoconiosis Act (Act No. 30 of 1960) (such work is referred to below as "dusty tasks" in this Article) is deemed to be the employer provided for in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (v) of that Act that employs the assigned worker (limited to one who is or has been regularly engaged in dusty tasks; the same applies below up to paragraph (4) and in paragraph (7)) (such an employer is simply referred to below as the "employer" in this Article), such an assigned worker is deemed to be a worker employed by the person running the client's business, and the provisions of Articles 5 through 9-2, Articles 11 through 14, Article 15, paragraph (3), Articles 16 through 17, and Article 35-2 of that Act (including penal provisions related to these provisions) apply to the client's business where the worker has been assigned to do that work. In this case, the phrase "separation from employment" in of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the above-mentioned Act is deemed to be replaced with "separation from employment (with regard to a assigned worker prescribed in Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (referred to below as the "Worker Dispatching Act"), the end of staffing services involving the assigned worker being provided, as prescribed in Article 2, item (i) of the Worker Dispatching Act; the same applies below in this paragraph)"; and the phrase "this Act" in Article 35-2 of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "this Act (including the provisions of Article 46 of the Worker Dispatching Act)".

②To apply the provisions stated in the first sentence of the preceding paragraph to a provider's business (limited to one involving dusty tasks) that has assigned a worker employed by that business to do assigned work at a client's business (limited to one involving dusty tasks), the employer at the provider's business is deemed not to employ the assigned worker, and the assigned worker is deemed not to be employed by the employer at the provider's business.

③To apply the provisions of Article 10 of the Pneumoconiosis Act pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the following terms are deemed to be replaced in the manner stated below: in Article 10, the phrase "An employer may, having conducted a pneumoconiosis examination" is deemed to be replaced with "A person running a client's business prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (such a business is simply referred to below as a "client's business") may, having conducted a pneumoconiosis examination for assigned workers prescribed in Article 46, paragraph (1) of that Act"; and the phrase "in Article 66, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act" is deemed to be replaced with "in Article 66, paragraphs (1) or (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act in the case of a person running a provider's business prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (3) of that Act, and in paragraph (2) of that Article in the case of a person running a client's business".

④The provisions of Articles 20-2 through 21 and Article 22-2 of the Pneumoconiosis Act (including penal provisions related to the provisions of Article 21 of that Act) apply to the assigned work that an assigned worker does in a business involving dusty tasks, with the person running the provider's business (excluding one who constitutes the employer; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (6)) being deemed to be the employer, the person running the client's business being deemed to also be the employer that employs that assigned worker, and with the assigned worker being deemed to also be employed by the person running the client's business.

⑤The provisions of Article 22 of the Pneumoconiosis Act (including penal provisions connected with that Article) apply to an assigned worker's assigned work at a business involving dusty tasks, with the person running the provider's business being deemed to be the employer.

⑥The provisions of Articles 8 through 14, Article 15, paragraph (3), Articles 16 through 17, and Articles 20-2, 22-2, and 35-2 of the Pneumoconiosis Act (including penal provisions related to these provisions) apply to a worker who has ever been regularly engaged in dusty tasks at a client's business and who is employed by the person running the provider's business at the time in question, but who is not regularly engaged in dusty tasks at that time (excluding persons regularly engaged in work other than dusty tasks at that client's business), with the person running the provider's business being deemed to be the employer. In this case, in Article 10 of that Act, the phrase "A employer may, having conducted a pneumoconiosis examination" is deemed to be replaced with "A person running a provider's business prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (referred to below as the "Worker Dispatching Act") (that undertaking is simply referred to below as a "provider's business") may, having conducted a pneumoconiosis examination for assigned workers prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article or for those who were the assigned workers prescribed in that paragraph", and the phrase "in Article 66, paragraphs (1) or (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act" is deemed to be replaced with "in Article 66, paragraphs (1) or (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act in the case of a person running a provider's business, and in Article 66, paragraph (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act in the case of a person running a client's business prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act"; and the phrase "this Act" in Article 35-2 of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "this Act (including the provisions of Article 46 of the Worker Dispatching Act)".

⑦Upon implementing pneumoconiosis examinations for the assigned workers or upon receiving documents certifying the results of pneumoconiosis examinations or other documents submitted by the assigned workers pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to Article 11 of the Pneumoconiosis Act as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), a person deemed to be an employer employing assigned workers pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) must prepare documents stating the results of the pneumoconiosis examinations based on records concerning the assigned workers that have been prepared pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; and, upon receiving notification under the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of that Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 15, paragraph (3), Article 16, paragraph (2), and Article 16-2, paragraph (2) of that Act) as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), must prepare documents stating the contents of the notification pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and send them to the person running the provider's business without delay.

⑧Upon receiving the documents referred to in the preceding paragraph pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the person running the relevant provider's business must retain the documents pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑨If an assigned worker who engages in assigned work in a business involving dusty tasks and who is regularly engaged in dusty tasks (excluding a worker whose classification for supervision of pneumoconiosis has been determined to be No. II, No. III, or No. IV), is diagnosed, in a medical examination referred to in Article 66, paragraphs (1) or (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act (excluding one conducted by the person running the client's business), with pneumoconiosis prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Pneumoconiosis Act (simply referred to below as "pneumoconiosis") or with suspected pneumoconiosis, the person running the provider's business must inform the person running the client's business of this without delay.

⑩A person violating the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs is subject to a fine of not more than 300,000 yen.

⑪If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee, or other worker of a corporation or individual, commits a violation referred to in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business of the corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being subject to punishment, the corporation or individual is subject to the fine referred to in that paragraph.

⑫For the special application of the Pneumoconiosis Act under the provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs, the following provisions (including penal provisions relating to these provisions) apply with the following terms and phrases deemed to be replaced in the manner stated below: the term "the employer" in Article 32, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the employer (including a person deemed to be the employer pursuant to the provisions of Article 46 of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (referred to below as the "Worker Dispatching Act"); referred to as "the employer and equivalent" in Article 35-3, paragraphs (1), (2), and (4), Article 43-2, paragraph (2), and Article 44)"; the phrase "employer" in Article 35-3, paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "the employer and equivalent"; the phrase "the provisions of this Act or of orders based on this Act" in paragraphs (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or of orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 46 of the Worker Dispatching Act), or the provisions of paragraphs (7) through (9) of that Article or the provisions of orders based on these provisions"; the phrase "This Act" in Article 39, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "This Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 46 of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; the phrase "paragraph (4) of Article 21" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 21, paragraph (4) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (4) of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; the phrase "the place of business at which dusty tasks are performed" in Article 40, paragraph (1) of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "the place of business at which dusty tasks are performed (including the place of business of a person deemed to be an employer pursuant to the provisions of Article 46 of the Worker Dispatching Act; the same applies in Article 42, paragraph (1))"; the phrase "this Act" in Article 41 and Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "this Act and the provisions of Article 46 of the Worker Dispatching Act"; the phrase "a violation of the provisions of this Act" in Article 43 of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "a violation of the provisions of this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 46 of the Worker Dispatching Act) and the crimes referred to in paragraphs (10) and (11) of that Article"; the phrase "the provisions of this Act or of orders based on this Act" in Article 43-2, paragraph (1) of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or of orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 46 of the Worker Dispatching Act), or the provisions of paragraphs (7) through (9) of that Article or the provisions of orders based on these provisions"; and the phrase "the employer" in paragraph (2) of that Article and Article 44 of the Pneumoconiosis Act is deemed to be replaced with "the employer and equivalent".

⑬To apply the provisions of Article 10 of the Pneumoconiosis Act when a person running a provider's business is an employer and has implemented pneumoconiosis examinations for assigned workers, the term "The employer" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "A person running a provider's business prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (referred to below as the "Worker Dispatching Act") (that undertaking is simply referred to below as a "provider's business")"; and the phrase "in paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 66 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act" is deemed to be replaced with "in Article 66, paragraphs (1) or (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act in the case of a person running a provider's business and in Article 66, paragraph (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act in the case of a person running a client's business prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act".

⑭Technical replacements of terms and other things needed to apply the provisions of the Pneumoconiosis Act and orders based on it pursuant to the provisions of this Article are prescribed by orders.