# 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 — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)

- 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)（障害者職業生活相談員に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3621-41/art-15`
- 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/suppl-3621-41/art-15
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-15
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### 第十五条（障害者職業生活相談員に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Working Life Counselors for Persons with Disabilities
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3621-41/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3621-41/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  旧法第七十九条第一項の労働大臣が行う講習を修了した者又はこの法律の施行の際現に同項の規定により身体障害者職業生活相談員として選任されている者は、それぞれ、新法第七十九条第一項の厚生労働大臣が行う講習を修了した者又は同項の規定により障害者職業生活相談員として選任されている者とみなす。
<sup>suppl-3621-41/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3621-41/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-15/par-1</sup>
A person who has finished the training course implemented by the Minister of Labour referred to in Article 79, paragraph (1) of the Former Act, or a person who is, at the time this Act comes into effect, appointed as a working life counselor for persons with physical disabilities pursuant to that paragraph, is deemed to be, respectively, a person who has finished the training course implemented by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in Article 79, paragraph (1) of the New Act, or a person who is appointed as a working life counselor for persons with disabilities pursuant to that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-004, translated 2026-10-19
- 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
