# 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 / Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — 第十九条 (Article 19) - Law: 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 (Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities), 昭和三十五年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十九条 (Article 19)（障害者職業センターの設置等の業務） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十九条（障害者職業センターの設置等の業務） — (Operations for Establishing and Operating Vocational Centers for Persons with Disabilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、障害者の職業生活における自立を促進するため、次に掲げる施設（以下「障害者職業センター」という。）の設置及び運営の業務を行う。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to carry out operations for establishing and managing the following facilities (hereinafter referred to as "vocational centers for persons with disabilities") to facilitate the independence of persons with disabilities in their working lives: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 障害者職業総合センター art-19/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19/par-1/item-1 the National Institute of Vocational Rehabilitation; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 広域障害者職業センター art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19/par-1/item-2 regional vocational centers for persons with disabilities; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 地域障害者職業センター art-19/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19/par-1/item-3 local vocational centers for persons with disabilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項に規定する業務の全部又は一部を独立行政法人高齢・障害・求職者雇用支援機構（以下「機構」という。）に行わせるものとする。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to have the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers (hereinafter referred to as "JEED") carry out all or part of the operations provided for in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-2: 前項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第十二条第一項（障害者職業センターとの連携等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-12/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第十二条第二項（障害者職業センターとの連携等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-12/par-2 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第十九条第二項（障害者職業センターの設置等の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-19/par-2 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第二条第一項（広域障害者職業センターの設置の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3351-123/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3351-123/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18