# 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 — 第四十一条 (Article 41) - 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（国に勤務する職員に関する特例） — address `art-41` - 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-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-41 - 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. --- ### 第四十一条（国に勤務する職員に関する特例） — (Special Provisions for Employees Working for the National Government) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-41 **第一項** 省庁（内閣府設置法（平成十一年法律第八十九号）第四十九条第一項に規定する機関又は国家行政組織法（昭和二十三年法律第百二十号）第三条第二項に規定する省若しくは庁をいう。以下同じ。）で、当該省庁の任命権者及び当該省庁に置かれる外局等（内閣府設置法第四十九条第二項に規定する機関、国家行政組織法第三条第二項に規定する委員会若しくは庁又は同法第八条の三に規定する特別の機関をいう。以下同じ。）の任命権者の申請に基づいて、一体として対象障害者である職員の採用の促進を図ることができるものとして厚生労働大臣の承認を受けたもの（以下「承認省庁」という。）に係る第三十八条第一項及び前条の規定の適用については、当該外局等に勤務する職員は当該承認省庁のみに勤務する職員と、当該外局等は当該承認省庁とみなす。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-41/par-1 To apply the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) and the preceding Article to a ministry or agency (meaning an organization provided for in Article 49, paragraph (1) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office (Act No. 89 of 1999) or Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act (Act No. 120 of 1948); the same applies hereinafter) that, based on the application of that ministry's or agency's appointer and the appointer of an external bureau and other organizations (meaning the organizations provided for in Article 49, paragraph (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office, or commissions and agencies provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2) and extraordinary organizations provided for in Article 8-3 of the National Government Organization Act; the same applies hereinafter), has been approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as a ministry or agency that may accelerate the hiring of qualifying disabled employees as a single entity (hereinafter referred to as the "approved ministry or agency"), the employees who work at those external bureaus and other organizations are deemed to be employees who work solely at that approved ministry or agency, and those external bureaus and other organizations are deemed to be that approved ministry or agency. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定による承認をした後において、承認省庁若しくは外局等が廃止されたとき、又は承認省庁若しくは外局等における対象障害者である職員の採用の促進を図ることができなくなつたと認めるときは、当該承認を取り消すことができる。 art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-41/par-2 If, after the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has granted the approval under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the approved ministry or agency or an external bureau or other organization is disestablished or the Minister finds that the approved ministry or agency or an external bureau or other organization has become unable to accelerate the hiring of qualifying disabled employees, the Minister may revoke that approval. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-41/par-1: 内閣府設置法（平成十一年法律第八十九号）第四十九条第一項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000089, 第四十九条第一項 (Article 49, paragraph (1)), art-49/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-41/par-1: 国家行政組織法（昭和二十三年法律第百二十号）第三条第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000120, 第三条第二項 (Article 3, paragraph (2)), art-3/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-41/par-1: 内閣府設置法第四十九条第二項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000089, 第四十九条第二項 (Article 49, paragraph (2)), art-49/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-41/par-1: 同法第八条の三 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000120, 第八条の三 (Article 8-3), art-8-3 — not held in this collection - art-41/par-1: 第三十八条第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-38/par-1 - art-41/par-1: 前条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十条 (Article 40), art-40 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-40 - art-41/par-2: 前項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-41/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十一条第二項（国に勤務する職員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-41/par-2 --- ## 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