①The person running a client's business to which a worker has been dispatched for assigned work is deemed to also be the business operator that employs that assigned worker (meaning the business operator prescribed in Article 2, item (iii) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act (Act No. 57 of 1972); the same applies below in this Article), such an assigned worker is deemed to also be a worker employed by the person running that client's business, and the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1), Articles 4 and 10, Articles 12 through 13 (excluding paragraphs (2) and (3)), Articles 13-2, 13-3, 18, and 19-2, Article 59, paragraph (2), Articles 60-2, 62, and 62-2, Article 66-5, paragraph (1), and Articles 69 and 70 (including penal provisions related to these provisions) of that Act apply to the client's business where the worker has been assigned to do that work. In that case, the phrase "Article 25-2, paragraph (2)" in Article 10, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 25-2, paragraph (2) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45, 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"))", and the phrase "the following operations" in Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the following operations (with regard to an assigned worker prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act (simply referred to below as an "assigned worker"), the operations referred to in item (ii) (excluding those connected with special education on health or safety as prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (3)), the operations referred to in item (iii) (limited to those connected with medical examinations under the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) (including medical examinations that fall under the provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (2) of that Article and are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) and medical examinations associated with to the above medical examinations under the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article, and medical examinations associated with those medical examinations above under the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (5) of that Article), and the operations referred to in item (v) (limited to those operations specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) are excluded; referred to below as "health and safety management operations at the client's place of business" in Article 12, paragraph (1) and Article 12-2)"; in Article 12, paragraph (1) and Article 12-2, the phrase "the operations listed in each item of Article 10, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "health and safety management operations at the client's place of business", the phrase "Article 25-2, paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 25-2, paragraph (2) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (3) of the Worker Dispatching Act)", and the phrase "in each item of paragraph (1) of that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "in each item of Article 25-2, paragraph (1)"; in Article 13, paragraph (1), the phrase "healthcare to workers and undertake other duties specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter" is deemed to be replaced with "healthcare to workers and undertake other duties specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (with regard to assigned workers, excluding duties specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare from the relevant duties; in paragraphs (4) and (5), the following Article, and Article 13-3"; in paragraph (4) of that Article, the phrase "other information provided" is deemed to be replaced with "other information provided (with regard to assigned workers, from relevant pieces of information, excluding information on the particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in paragraph (1))"; and in Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, the phrase "the following particulars" is deemed to be replaced with "the following particulars (with regard to assigned workers, excluding particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare from the relevant particulars)".

②To apply the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1), Article 12, paragraph (1), Article 12-2, Article 13, paragraphs (1) and (4), and Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act to a provider's business employing workers who are assigned to do assigned work at a client's business, the phrase "the following operations" in Article 10, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the following operations (with regard to assigned workers prescribed in Article 44, 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") (such a worker is referred to below simply as an "assigned worker"), excluding operations over which the person running the client's business as prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act appoints a general health and safety manager to exercise overall control pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph as applied by replacing the terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act; such operations are referred to as "health and safety management operations at the client's place of business" in Article 12, paragraph (1) and Article 12-2)"; the phrase "the operations listed in each item of Article 10, paragraph (1)" in Article 12, paragraph (1) and Article 12-2 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "health and safety management operations at the client's place of business"; the phrase "healthcare to workers and undertake other duties specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter" in Article 13, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "healthcare to workers and undertake other duties specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (with regard to assigned workers, limited to duties specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare among the duties mentioned above; in paragraphs (4) and (5), the following Article, and Article 13-3"; the phrase "other information provided" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "other information provided (with regard to assigned workers, among relevant pieces of information, limited to information related to particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in paragraph (1))"; and the phrase "the following particulars" in Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the following particulars (with regard to assigned workers, limited to particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare among the relevant particulars)".

③The person running a client's business to which a worker has been dispatched for assigned work in that business is deemed to be the business operator that employs the assigned worker; such an assigned worker is deemed to be a worker employed by the person running the client's business; and the provisions of Article 11 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, Articles 14 through 15-3, Article 17, Articles 20 through 27, Articles 28-2 through 30-3, Article 31-3, Article 36 (limited to the part related to the provisions of Article 30, paragraphs (1) and (4), Article 30-2, paragraphs (1) and (4), and Article 30-3, paragraphs (1) and (4)), Article 45 of that Act (other than its second and third paragraphs), Articles 57-3 through 58, Article 59, paragraph (3), Article 60, Article 61, paragraph (1), Articles 65 through 65-4, the first sentence and second sentence of Article 66, paragraph (2) (limited to the part concerning workers whom the person running the client's business has had engage in work specified by Cabinet Order referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph (including assigned workers); the same applies below in this Article), Article 66, paragraphs (3), (4) (limited to the part related to the provisions of the first sentence and second sentence of paragraph (2) of Article 66 and Article 66, paragraph (3) of that Act; the same applies below in this Article), and (5) (limited to the part related to the provisions of the first sentence and second sentence of paragraph (2) of Article 66 and Article 66, paragraphs (3) and (4) of that Act; the same applies below in this Article), Article 66-3 (limited to the part related to the provisions of the first sentence and second sentence of paragraph (2) of Article 66 and Article 66, paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of that Act; the same applies below in this Article), Articles 66-4, 66-8-3, 68, 68-2, and 71-2, Chapter IX, Section 1, and Articles 88 through 89-2 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act and the provisions of orders based on those provisions (including penal provisions related to those provisions) apply to the client's business where that worker has been assigned to do that work. In this case, the phrase "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act" in Article 29, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (referred to below as the "Worker Dispatching Act")), or the provisions of paragraph (10) of that Article or orders based on the provisions of that paragraph"; the phrase "the provisions of this Act or an order based on this Act" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act), or the provisions of paragraph (10) of that Article or orders based on the provisions of that paragraph"; the phrase "this Act or an order hereunder" in Article 30, paragraph (1), item (v) and Article 88, paragraph (6) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; the phrase "paragraphs (1) through (4) of Article 66, proviso in paragraph (5) and Article 66-2" in Article 66-4 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the first sentence or second sentence of paragraph (2) of Article 66 (limited to the part concerning workers whom a person running a client's business has had engage in the work specified by Cabinet Order referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph (including assigned workers prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act); the same applies below in this Article), Article 66, paragraphs (3) and (4) (limited to the part related to the provisions of the first sentence and second sentence of paragraph (2) of Article 66 and Article 66, paragraph (3); the same applies below in this Article), or the proviso to Article 66, paragraph (5) (limited to the part related to the provisions of the first sentence and second sentence of paragraph (2) of Article 66 and Article 66, paragraphs (3) and (4))"; and the phrase "paragraph (1) of Article 66-8" in Article 66-8-3 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 66-8, paragraph (1), a business operator for a provider's business (referring to the provider's business prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Worker Dispatching Act)".

④To apply the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act and paragraph (3) of that Article to a person that is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, to be the business operator employing an assigned worker, the term "business operator" in Article 45, paragraph (2) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the person deemed to be the business operator employing an assigned worker, as prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers, pursuant to the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (3) of that Act".

⑤To apply the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (3) and the provisions of Article 45, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act to a provider's business that has assigned a worker employed by that business to do assigned work at a client's business, the business operator of the provider's business is deemed not to employ the assigned worker, and that assigned worker is deemed not to be employed by the business operator of the provider's business.

⑥The employer at a provider's business must not provide dispatched workers if the person that would be deemed, pursuant to paragraph (3), to be the employer of the worker assigned to do the assigned work at its business, would violate the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (3), Article 61, paragraph (1), Article 65-4, or Article 68 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act (simply referred to as "the provisions of the Industrial Safety and Health Act" in the following paragraph) as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) above, if it were to cause the worker who would be subject to the worker dispatching arrangement to work in accordance with the assigned work conditions that the associated staffing contract prescribes.

⑦If the employer at a provider's business has violated the provisions of the preceding paragraph (but only if the person deemed to be the employer of the assigned worker pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) has violated the relevant provisions of the Industrial Safety and Health Act in connection with the assigned worker under the worker dispatching arrangement), the employer at the provider's business is deemed to have violated the provisions of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, and the provisions of Articles 119 and 122 of that Act apply.

⑧Beyond what is prescribed in paragraphs (1), (3), and (4), in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, the phrase "employers" is deemed to be replaced with "employers (including 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 (referred to below as the "Worker Dispatching Act") (such employer is referred to below as a "client employer"))"; in paragraph (4) of that Article, the phrase "employer in those undertakings" is deemed to be replaced with "employer in those undertakings or the person deemed to be the employer under those undertakings pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act", the phrase "employed solely by the representative" is deemed to be replaced with "workers employed solely by the representative and not by a person other than the representative among relevant employers under those undertakings (including the client employer)", and the phrase "this Act" is deemed to be replaced with "this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; in Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, the phrase "paragraph (1) or (3) of Article 15" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 15, paragraph (1) or (3) as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (3) of the Worker Dispatching Act"; in Article 19 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act and Article 17, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4) of Article 19, the phrase "employer" is deemed to be replaced with "client employer"; in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, the phrase "Article 17 and the preceding Article" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 17 and the preceding Article as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act"; and in Article 19, paragraphs (2) and (3) and Article 17, paragraphs (4) and (5) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (4), the phrase "workers" is deemed to be replaced with "workers (including assigned workers prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; and those provisions apply to the person running a client's business where a worker has been assigned to do work.

⑨To apply the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act to a provider's business that has assigned a worker it employs to do assigned work at a client's business, the phrase "Article 17 and the preceding Article" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 17 and the preceding Article as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers".

⑩A person deemed to be an employer of assigned workers pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) (including a person deemed to be their employer pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (4) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (8)) must without delay, after having implemented medical examinations for those assigned workers under the provisions of paragraph (2), (3), or (4) of Article 66 of that Act as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), or upon the submission of documents certifying the results of the medical examination under the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (5) of that Article by those assigned workers, prepare documents stating the results of the medical examinations based on records on the assigned workers under the provisions of Article 66-3 and send the documents to the employer at the provider's business, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑪An employer at a provider's business that has received the documents referred to in the preceding paragraph pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph must retain them pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑫A person violating the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is subject to a fine of not more than 300,000 yen.

⑬If 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.

⑭Upon obtaining the opinion of a physician or dentist pursuant to the provisions of Article 66-4 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act as applied to assigned workers pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), a person as referred to in paragraph (10) must notify the employer at the provider's business of that opinion without delay, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑮For the special application of the Industrial Safety and Health Act under the provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs, the following provisions (including penal provisions related to these provisions) apply with the provided terms being replaced in the provided manner: the phrase "persons conducting business" in Article 9 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "persons conducting business (including a person running a client's business provided for in Article 44, 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") (such a person is referred to below as a "client employer"))"; the phrase "business operators" in Article 28, paragraph (4), Article 32, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 63, Article 66-5, paragraph (3), Article 70-2, paragraph (2), Article 71-3, paragraph (2), Article 71-4, Article 93, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 97, paragraph (2), Article 98, paragraph (1), Article 99-2, paragraphs (1) and (2), Articles 100 through 102, Article 103, paragraph (1), Article 104, paragraphs (1), (2), and (4), Article 106, paragraph (1), and Article 108-2, paragraph (3) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "business operators (including client employers)"; the phrase "persons conducting business" in Article 33, paragraph (1), Article 34, and Article 99, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "persons conducting business (including client employers)"; the phrase "contractor" in Article 32, paragraph (4) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "contractor (including client employers)"; the phrase "(workers" in Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "(workers (including assigned workers prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act (simply referred to below as "assigned workers"); the same applies below in this paragraph)"; the phrase "workers" in Article 31-2 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "workers (including assigned workers)"; the phrase "persons engaged in work" in Article 31-4, Article 32, paragraphs (4), (6), and (7), and Article 99, paragraph (2) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "persons engaged in work (including assigned workers)"; the phrase "the provisions of this Act or an order issued under this Act" in Article 31-4 and Article 97, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act), or the provisions of paragraph (6), (10), or (11) of that Article or the provisions of orders based on these provisions"; the phrase "this Act" in Article 90, Article 91, paragraph (1), and Article 100 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act and Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act"; the phrase "crime that violates this Act" in Article 92 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "crime (including the crimes referred to in Articles 119 and 122, which are applicable under the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (7) of the Worker Dispatching Act) that violates this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act) and the crimes referred to in Article 45, paragraphs (12) and (13) of the Worker Dispatching Act"; the phrase "Article 34" in Article 98, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 34 (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; the phrase "this Act" in Article 101, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "this Act (including the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; the phrase "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act (excluding Article 57-2, paragraph (4) and the provisions of orders based on it)" in Article 103, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act (excluding Article 57-2, paragraph (4) and the provisions of orders based on it) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; the phrase "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act" in Article 104, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act), or the provisions of paragraph (10) or (11) of that Article or the provisions of orders based on these provisions"; the phrase "(excluding the provisions of Chapter II)" in Article 115, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "(excluding the provisions of Chapter II) and the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act".

⑯To apply the provisions of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (5), paragraphs (7) through (9), and the immediately preceding paragraph, to a person that has violated the Industrial Safety and Health Act or the provisions of orders based on that Act, or to a person that has violated the provisions of paragraph (6), (10), or (11) or the provisions of orders based on those provisions, the phrase "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act" in Article 46, paragraph (2), item (i) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (referred to below as the "Worker Dispatching Act")), or the provisions of paragraph (6), (10), or (11) of that Article or the provisions of orders based on these provisions"; the phrase "the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 45 or an order under those provisions" in Article 54-3, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (1) or (2) or of an order based on these provisions (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Worker Dispatching Act)"; the phrase "the provisions of this Act, an order under this Act or administrative dispositions under these provisions" in Article 56, paragraph (6) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act), administrative dispositions under these provisions, the provisions of paragraph (6), (10), or (11) of that Article, or the provisions of orders based on these provisions"; the phrase "the provisions of this Act or an order under this Act" in Article 74-2, paragraph (2), item (ii), Article 75-3, paragraph (2), item (iii) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 83-3 and 85-3 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act), Article 84, paragraph (2), item (ii), and Article 99-3, paragraph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act), or the provisions of paragraph (6), (10), or (11) of that Article or the provisions of orders based on these provisions"; the phrase "this Act (including the orders issued or dispositions taken thereunder)" in Article 75-4, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 83-3 and 85-3 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act) and Article 75-5, paragraph (4) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 83-3 of that Act) is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of this Act or orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act), administrative dispositions under these provisions, the provisions of paragraph (6), (10), or (11) of that Article, or the provisions of orders based on these provisions"; and the phrase "this Act or an order hereunder" in Article 84, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act is deemed to be replaced with "this Act and orders based on this Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 45 of the Worker Dispatching Act), and the Worker Dispatching Act (limited to the provisions of paragraphs (6), (10), and (11) of that Article) and orders based on it".

⑰Technical replacements a of terms and other things needed to apply the provisions of the Industrial Safety and Health Act and orders based on it pursuant to the provisions of this Article are prescribed by orders.