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Article 40Special Provisions on Working Hours and Breaks

第四十条(労働時間及び休憩の特例)

Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare may establish separate provisions on the working hours referred to in Articles 32 through 32-5 and on the breaks referred to in Article 34, for a business other than that stated in items (i) through (iii), items (vi) and (vii) of Appended Table 1, for which this needs to be done in order to avoid inconvenience to the public or for which there is any other special need to do so, to the extent to which the need to do so is unavoidable.

別表第一第一号から第三号まで、第六号及び第七号に掲げる事業以外の事業で、公衆の不便を避けるために必要なものその他特殊の必要あるものについては、その必要避くべからざる限度で、第三十二条から第三十二条の五までの労働時間及び第三十四条の休憩に関する規定について、厚生労働省令で別段の定めをすることができる。

The separate provisions under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must conform closely to the standards prescribed in this Act and must not be harmful to the health or welfare of workers.

前項の規定による別段の定めは、この法律で定める基準に近いものであつて、労働者の健康及び福祉を害しないものでなければならない。

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