# 労働者災害補償保険法 / Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act — 第八条 (Article 8) - Law: 労働者災害補償保険法 (Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act), 昭和二十二年法律第五十号 - English title "Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance 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) — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/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 art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8 **第一項** 給付基礎日額は、労働基準法第十二条の平均賃金に相当する額とする。この場合において、同条第一項の平均賃金を算定すべき事由の発生した日は、前条第一項第一号から第三号までに規定する負傷若しくは死亡の原因である事故が発生した日又は診断によつて同項第一号から第三号までに規定する疾病の発生が確定した日（以下「算定事由発生日」という。）とする。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8/par-1 The basic daily payment amount is the amount equivalent to the average wage referred to in Article 12 of the Labor Standards Act. In this case, the day on which the grounds to calculate the average wage occurred referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article is the day on which the accident which caused the injury or death as prescribed in paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the preceding Article occurs, or the date on which the occurrence of an illness prescribed in items (i) through (iii) of that paragraph was confirmed by making a diagnosis (hereinafter referred to as "the date on which the grounds for calculation occurred"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 労働基準法第十二条の平均賃金に相当する額を給付基礎日額とすることが適当でないと認められるときは、前項の規定にかかわらず、厚生労働省令で定めるところによつて政府が算定する額を給付基礎日額とする。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8/par-2 When it is deemed inappropriate to pay the amount equivalent to the average wage referred to in Article 12 of the Labor Standards Act as the basic daily payment amount, the amount calculated by the government pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is deemed to be the basic daily payment amount, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定にかかわらず、複数事業労働者の業務上の事由、複数事業労働者の二以上の事業の業務を要因とする事由又は複数事業労働者の通勤による負傷、疾病、障害又は死亡により、当該複数事業労働者、その遺族その他厚生労働省令で定める者に対して保険給付を行う場合における給付基礎日額は、前二項に定めるところにより当該複数事業労働者を使用する事業ごとに算定した給付基礎日額に相当する額を合算した額を基礎として、厚生労働省令で定めるところによつて政府が算定する額とする。 art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8/par-3 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the basic daily payment amount in the case where insurance proceeds are paid to a multiple-job worker, their surviving family members or other persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for injury, illness, disability or death of the multiple-job worker caused in the course of their duties, by reasons attributable to the work of two or more businesses of the multiple-job worker, or while the multiple-job worker is commuting to or from work, is the amount calculated by the government pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the sum of the amounts equivalent to the basic daily payment amounts calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs for each business that employs the multiple-job worker. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-8/par-1: 労働基準法第十二条 → 労働基準法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-12 - art-8/par-1: 同条第一項 → 労働基準法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-12/par-1 - art-8/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第三号まで → 労働者災害補償保険法 第七条第一項第一号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-7/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-7/par-1/item-1 - art-8/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第三号まで → 労働者災害補償保険法 第七条第一項第二号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-7/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-7/par-1/item-2 - art-8/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第三号まで → 労働者災害補償保険法 第七条第一項第三号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-7/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-7/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-7/par-1/item-3 - art-8/par-2: 労働基準法第十二条 → 労働基準法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-12 - art-8/par-2: 前項 → 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8/par-1 - art-8/par-3: 前二項 → 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8/par-1 - art-8/par-3: 前二項 → 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8/par-2 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 第十二条第三項（一般保険料に係る保険料率） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-12/par-3 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8/par-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8/par-3 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-1/item-1 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条の二第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-1/item-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8-3/par-1/item-1 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条の三第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8-3/par-1/item-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第四十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-42/par-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第六条第二項（労働者災害補償保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-5021-14/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-5021-14/art-6/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働者災害補償保険法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000050/20260717_508AC0000000060), retrieved 2026-09-29 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3879/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-accident-insurance-act-20260929T171226-001, translated 2026-09-30 - This site's parser, version 211 — 労働者災害補償保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29