Article 20

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may designate a general employer organization or any of its allied organizations (excluding an organization that is not a corporation or a federation that does not have a designated representative) that the Minister finds to be capable of properly and reliably performing the business prescribed in the following paragraph as a center for advancement of measures to support raising next-generation children, upon receiving an application from that organization.

②A center for advancement of measures to support raising next-generation children is to provide consultations and other assistance to a general employer and other persons concerned for the improvement of the employment environment in relation to the formulation and implementation of a general employer action plan.

③When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary to improve the financial status or business operations of a center for advancement of measures to support raising next-generation children, the Minister may order that center to take any measures necessary to achieve that improvement.

④When a center for advancement of measures to support raising next-generation children violates an order under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may revoke the designation under paragraph (1).

⑤A current or former officer or employee of a center for advancement of measures to support raising next-generation children must not divulge any secret learned in connection with the business prescribed in paragraph (2).

⑥The procedures for the designation referred to in paragraph (1) and other necessary matters concerning a center for advancement of measures to support raising next-generation children are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.