# 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 — 第七十七条 (Article 77)

- 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: 第七十七条 (Article 77)（基準に適合する事業主の認定） — address `art-77`
- 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-77
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77
- 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.

---

### 第七十七条（基準に適合する事業主の認定） — (Certification of Employers That Meet the Standards)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77</sup>

**第一項**  厚生労働大臣は、その雇用する労働者の数が常時三百人以下である事業主からの申請に基づき、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該事業主について、障害者の雇用の促進及び雇用の安定に関する取組に関し、当該取組の実施状況が優良なものであることその他の厚生労働省令で定める基準に適合するものである旨の認定を行うことができる。
<sup>art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77/par-1</sup>
Based on an application from an employer ordinarily employing not more than 300 workers, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may certify, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, that the extent of the employer's implementation of the efforts to facilitate the employment of persons with disabilities and stabilize employment for them is excellent and conforms to other standards provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第二項**  第四十三条第八項の規定は、前項の雇用する労働者の数の算定について準用する。
<sup>art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77/par-2</sup>
The provisions of Article 43, paragraph (8) apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of the number of workers an employer employs that is referred to in the preceding paragraph.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

---

## Cites
- art-77/par-2: 第四十三条第八項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十三条第八項 (Article 43, paragraph (8)), art-43/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-43/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-43/par-8
- art-77/par-2: 前項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十七条第一項 (Article 77, paragraph (1)), art-77/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77/par-1

## Cited by

5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十七条第二項（基準に適合する事業主の認定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77/par-2
- 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十七条の二第一項（表示等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77-2/par-1
- 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十七条の三第一項（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77-3/par-1
- 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十七条の三第一項第一号（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77-3/par-1/item-1
- 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十七条の三第一項第三号（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-77-3/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-77-3/par-1/item-3

---

## 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
