# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第八条 (Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Article 8)（公共職業安定所） — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（公共職業安定所） — (Public Employment Security Offices) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-8 **第一項** 公共職業安定所は、職業紹介、職業指導、雇用保険その他この法律の目的を達成するために必要な業務を行い、無料で公共に奉仕する機関とする。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-8/par-1 A public employment security office is an agency that serves the public free of charge, providing employment placement, vocational guidance, employment insurance, and performing other operations that need to be performed to accomplish the purpose of this Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公共職業安定所長は、都道府県労働局長の指揮監督を受けて、所務をつかさどり、所属の職員を指揮監督する。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-8/par-2 The chiefs of public employment security offices, under the direction and supervision of the prefectural labor directors, oversee the administrative functions of their respective public employment security offices, and direct and supervise personnel under their jurisdiction. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第二十六条第一項第五号（旅券等の提示要求ができる職員） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-26/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-26/par-1/item-5 - 日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法施行規則 第十九条第一項第五号（特別永住者証明書の提示要求ができる職員） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-act-on-immigration-control-enforcement-regulation/art-19/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423M60000010044/art-19/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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