# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第四十四条 (Article 44)

- 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: 第四十四条 (Article 44)（労働者供給事業の禁止） — address `art-44`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-44
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-44
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### 第四十四条（労働者供給事業の禁止） — (Prohibition of the Worker Supply Services)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-44</sup>

**第一項**  何人も、次条に規定する場合を除くほか、労働者供給事業を行い、又はその労働者供給事業を行う者から供給される労働者を自らの指揮命令の下に労働させてはならない。
<sup>art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-44/par-1</sup>
It is prohibited for any person to provide the worker supply services or to have a worker who has been supplied by a person providing the worker supply services work under the directions or orders of the person to which the worker has been supplied, except in the cases provided for in the following Article.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-44/par-1: 次条 → 職業安定法 第四十五条 (Article 45), art-45 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-45

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 職業安定法 第六十四条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-64/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-64/par-1/item-10

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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
