①On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to facilitate the employment of qualifying disabled persons, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order an employer that employs a number of qualifying disabled workers that is less than the legally mandated number of workers with disabilities (other than an employer that constitutes a specified cooperative or association or a specified employer associated with the certification referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) to draw up a plan, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for hiring qualifying disabled persons in order to bring the number of qualifying disabled workers up to at least the legally mandated number of workers with disabilities.

②The provisions of Article 45-2, paragraphs (4) through (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of the number of qualifying disabled workers referred to in the preceding paragraph.

③To apply the provisions of paragraph (1) to a parent employer or related parent employer, workers that the relevant subsidiary and the relevant related company employ are deemed to be workers employed solely by the parent employer, and workers that the relevant related subsidiaries employ are deemed to be workers employed solely by the related parent employer.

④Having drawn up a plan as referred to in paragraph (1), an employer must submit this to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The same applies if the employer has made changes to the plan.

⑤If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds the plan referred to in paragraph (1) to be extremely inappropriate, the Minister may recommend that the employer that drew up the plan make changes to it.

⑥On finding it to be especially necessary to do so, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may give an employer that has drawn up a plan as referred to in paragraph (1) recommendations as to the proper implementation of that plan.

If an employer that has drawn up a plan as referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article fails to comply with the recommendation referred to in paragraph (5) or paragraph (6) of that Article without reasonable grounds, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may disclose this to the public.

①With regard to the hiring of employees (other than part-time workers; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph, paragraph (3), and paragraph (4)) in a specified occupation (meaning an occupation provided for by Cabinet Order that is found to be suited to the abilities of a person with a disability who is able to work but for whom the severity of an impairment as set forth in the Appended Table makes it especially difficult to work a standard job; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), if the number of employees in such an occupation who work for the relevant organization and who constitute persons with prescribed physical disabilities (meaning persons with physical disabilities who constitute the persons prescribed by Cabinet Order for each specified occupation; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) is less than the number arrived at when the total number of employees in that occupation who work for the relevant organization is multiplied by the mandatory proportion of workers with prescribed physical disabilities that Cabinet Order prescribes for the occupation (any part of the number so calculated representing less than one full person is disregarded), the national or local government's appointer, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, must draw up a plan for hiring persons with the prescribed physical disabilities in order to bring the number of employees with prescribed physical disabilities in that occupation up to at least the number arrived at when the total number of employees in that occupation is multiplied by the aforementioned proportion.

②The provisions of Article 39 apply mutatis mutandis to the plan referred to in the preceding paragraph.

③To apply the provisions of paragraph (1) to an approved ministry or agency, employees who work at the relevant external bureaus and other organizations are deemed to be employees who work solely at the approved ministry or agency; to apply those provisions to a certified local organization, employees who work at the relevant other organization are deemed to be employees who work solely at the certified local organization.

④Whether an employee working at the organization in question is a person with a prescribed physical disability is to be confirmed using the documents provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑤On finding it to be necessary to do so, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may give the national or local government's appointer recommendations as to the proper implementation of the confirmation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

⑥In hiring workers (excluding part-time workers; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph, the following paragraph, and paragraph (9)) in a specified occupation, an employer must endeavor to ensure that the number of workers with prescribed physical disabilities they employ in that occupation is at least the number arrived at when the total number of workers they employ in that occupation is multiplied by the mandatory proportion of workers with prescribed physical disabilities prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (any part of the number so calculated representing less than one full person is disregarded) for that occupation.

⑦On finding it to be especially necessary to do so in order to facilitate the employment of persons with prescribed physical disabilities, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order an employer that employs fewer workers with prescribed physical disabilities in a specified occupation than the number calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and that it is found would not have any extreme difficulty in increasing that number (limited to one employing a number of workers in the occupation in question that is at least the number that Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes for that occupation) to draw up a plan, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for hiring persons with prescribed physical disabilities in order to ensure that the number of workers with prescribed physical disabilities in the occupation is at least the number calculated pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.

⑧To apply the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs to a parent employer, related parent employer, or specified cooperative or association, the workers that the subsidiaries and the related companies employ are deemed to be workers employed solely by the parent employer, the workers that the related subsidiaries employ are deemed to be workers employed solely by the related parent employer, and the workers that a specified employer employs are deemed to be workers employed solely by the relevant specified cooperative or association.

⑨Whether a worker that the employer in question employs is a person with a prescribed physical disability is to be confirmed using the documents provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑩The provisions of Article 46, paragraph (4) and paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to a plan as referred to in paragraph (7).

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to carry out the following operations in order to adjust employers' shares of the financial burden associated with employing qualifying disabled persons and in order to facilitate and sustain employment for these persons (hereinafter referred to as "levy-related operations"):

②The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to delegate all or part of the services set forth in each item of the preceding paragraphs to JEED.