# 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 — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

- 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（身体障害者雇用促進協会の定款の変更） — address `suppl-3621-41/art-5`
- 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-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-5
- 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.

---

### 第五条（身体障害者雇用促進協会の定款の変更） — Amendment of the Articles of Incorporation of the Association for the Employment Promotion of Persons with Physical Disabilities
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3621-41/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3621-41/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の公布の際現に身体障害者雇用促進協会が設立されている場合又はこの法律の公布の日から施行日の前日までの間に身体障害者雇用促進協会が設立された場合においては、身体障害者雇用促進協会は、同日までに、日本障害者雇用促進協会となるために必要な定款の変更をし、労働大臣の認可を受けることができる。
<sup>suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-1</sup>
In the case where the Association for the Employment Promotion of Persons with Physical Disabilities has already been established at the time of promulgation of this Act, or in the case where it is established during the period from the date of promulgation of this Act to the day preceding the Effective Date, the Association for the Employment Promotion of Persons with Physical Disabilities may, by that day, amend its articles of incorporation as necessary to become the Japan Association for the Employment Promotion of Persons with Disabilities, and obtain the authorization of the Minister of Labour.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の認可があつたときは、同項に規定する定款の変更は、施行日にその効力を生ずる。
<sup>suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-2</sup>
When the authorization referred to in the preceding paragraph has been granted, the amendment of the articles of incorporation prescribed in that paragraph takes effect on the Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

---

## Cites
- suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-2: 前項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)), suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-1

## Cited by

2 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 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3621-41/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-1/par-1
- 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第五条第二項（身体障害者雇用促進協会の定款の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3621-41/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3621-41/art-5/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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-003, 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
