# 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 — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4251-46/art-1` - 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-4251-46/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-46/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成三十年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2018; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第二条第一号の改正規定並びに次条及び附則第五条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions amending Article 2, item (i), and the provisions of the following Article and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official **二** 目次の改正規定（「身体障害者又は知的障害者」を「対象障害者」に、「第六十八条」を「第七十二条」に改め、「第三節　精神障害者に関する特例（第六十九条―第七十三条）」を削り、「第四節　身体障害者、知的障害者及び精神障害者」を「第三節　対象障害者」に、「（第七十四条）」を「（第七十三条・第七十四条）」に、「第五節」を「第四節」に改める部分を除く。）、第一条の改正規定（「身体障害者又は知的障害者」を「障害者」に改める部分を除く。）、第七条及び第十条の改正規定、第三十三条の次に章名を付する改正規定、第三十四条から第三十六条までの改正規定、第三章の前に見出し及び五条を加える改正規定、第四十三条第一項中「除く。」の下に「次章を除き、」を加える改正規定、第七十四条の二第三項中「次章」を「第四章」に改める改正規定、第三章の次に一章を加える改正規定、第八十五条の二を第八十五条の四とし、第四章中第八十五条の次に二条を加える改正規定並びに第八十七条第一項の改正規定並びに附則第三条、第六条及び第八条の規定　平成二十八年四月一日 suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-2 the provisions amending the table of contents (excluding the portions replacing "persons with physical disabilities or persons with intellectual disabilities" with "qualifying disabled persons" and "Article 68" with "Article 72", deleting "Section 3 Special Provisions for Persons with Mental Disabilities (Articles 69 through 73)", replacing "Section 4 Persons with Physical Disabilities, Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, and Persons with Mental Disabilities" with "Section 3 Qualifying Disabled Persons" and "(Article 74)" with "(Articles 73 and 74)", and replacing "Section 5" with "Section 4"), the provisions amending Article 1 (excluding the portion replacing "persons with physical disabilities or persons with intellectual disabilities" with "persons with disabilities"), the provisions amending Articles 7 and 10, the provisions adding a chapter title after Article 33, the provisions amending Articles 34 through 36, the provisions adding a heading and five Articles before Chapter 3, the provisions adding "except in the following Chapter," after "excluding the national government and local governments;" in Article 43, paragraph (1), the provisions replacing "the following Chapter" with "Chapter 4" in Article 74-2, paragraph (3), the provisions adding one Chapter after Chapter 3, the provisions making Article 85-2 into Article 85-4 and adding two Articles after Article 85 in Chapter 4, and the provisions amending Article 87, paragraph (1), and the provisions of Articles 3, 6 and 8 of the Supplementary Provisions: April 1, 2016. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-1: 次条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4251-46/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-2 - suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第五条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4251-46/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-5 - suppl-4251-46/art-1/par-1/item-2: 附則第三条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4251-46/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-3 ## 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 附則第二条第一項（施行前の準備） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-2/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第三条第一項（紛争の解決の促進に関する特例に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-3/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-010, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-010, 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