To apply the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and paragraph (7) to a parent employer that has a special connection provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to a specific stock company (other than the subsidiaries of the parent employer and employers that are the members associated with a certification as referred to in Article 45-3, paragraph (1)), and that, based on the application of the parent employer, the relevant subsidiary, and the relevant stock company (hereinafter referred to as a "related company"), has had it certified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare that the parent employer and the related company conform to the following criteria, the workers that the related company employs are deemed to be workers that the parent employer solely employs, and the related company's places of business are deemed to be the parent employer's places of business:
the same persons are closely connected with both the business that the related company does and the business that the subsidiary does, there are close operational connections in the business that the related company and the subsidiary do, or the related company has made a financial contribution to the subsidiary;
pursuant to the provisions of Article 78, paragraph (2), the parent employer has appointed a person to handle the tasks set forth in the items of that paragraph, and has decided that the person in question will also carry out the tasks set forth in item (i) of that paragraph for the subsidiary and the related company; and
it is recognized that the parent employer is sure to be able to succeed in facilitating the employment of qualifying disabled workers it employs and qualifying disabled workers employed by the relevant subsidiary and related company, and in stabilizing employment for those workers.
If a related company has been granted the certification referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or paragraph (1) of the following Article, it may not file an application as referred to in the preceding paragraph.
The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in paragraph (1).
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