# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2)

- Law: 職業安定法 (Employment Security Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号
- English title "Employment Security Act": 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: 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2)（業務情報の提供） — address `art-18-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-18-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-18-2
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### 第十八条の二（業務情報の提供） — (Providing Information on Operations)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-18-2</sup>

  **第一項**  公共職業安定所は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、求職者又は求人者に対し、特定地方公共団体又は職業紹介事業者（第三十二条の九第二項の命令を受けている者その他の公共職業安定所が求職者又は求人者に対してその職業紹介事業の業務に係る情報の提供を行うことが適当でない者として厚生労働省令で定めるものを除く。この項において同じ。）に関する第三十二条の十六第三項に規定する事項、特定地方公共団体又は職業紹介事業者の紹介により就職した者のうち雇用保険法第五十八条の規定による移転費の支給を受けたものの数その他職業紹介事業の業務に係る情報を提供するものとする。
  <sup>art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-18-2/par-1</sup>
  Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a public employment security office is to provide job seekers and job posters with information about the particulars provided in Article 32-16, paragraph (3) concerning specified local public entities or employment placement service providers (excluding one that has been issued an order under Article 32-9, paragraph (2) or any other person prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person whose employment placement services operations are inappropriate for public employment security offices to provide information about it to job seekers or job posters; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), information about the number of persons who were hired at the referral of specified local public entities or employment placement service providers and had their moving expenses paid under Article 58 of the Employment Insurance Act, and information about employment placement services operations.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-18-2/par-1: 第三十二条の九第二項 → 職業安定法 第三十二条の九第二項 (Article 32-9, paragraph (2)), art-32-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-32-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-32-9/par-2
- art-18-2/par-1: この項 → 職業安定法 第十八条の二第一項 (Article 18-2, paragraph (1)), art-18-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-18-2/par-1
- art-18-2/par-1: 第三十二条の十六第三項 → 職業安定法 第三十二条の十六第三項 (Article 32-16, paragraph (3)), art-32-16/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-32-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-32-16/par-3
- art-18-2/par-1: 雇用保険法第五十八条 → 雇用保険法 第五十八条 (Article 58), art-58 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-58

## Cited by

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

- 職業安定法 第十八条の二第一項（業務情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-18-2/par-1
- 雇用保険法 第五十八条第一項（移転費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-58/par-1
- 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第三十八条第三項（業務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-38/par-3

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 職業安定法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000141/20260401_506AC0000000050), retrieved 2026-10-17
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17
- This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17
