# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) - Law: 労働安全衛生法 (Industrial Safety and Health Act), 昭和四十七年法律第五十七号 - English title "Industrial Safety and Health 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（製造の許可） — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十七条（製造の許可） — (Permission for Manufacturing) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37 **第一項** 特に危険な作業を必要とする機械等として別表第一に掲げるもので、政令で定めるもの（以下「特定機械等」という。）を製造しようとする者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、都道府県労働局長の許可を受けなければならない。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-1 A person seeking to manufacture machinery or other such equipment that is set forth in Appended Table 1 as necessitating particularly dangerous work operations, and also specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as "specified machinery or other such equipment"), must obtain permission from the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau in advance, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 都道府県労働局長は、前項の許可の申請があつた場合には、その申請を審査し、申請に係る特定機械等の構造等が厚生労働大臣の定める基準に適合していると認めるときでなければ、同項の許可をしてはならない。 art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-2 When a person has applied for the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau examines the application, and must not give the permission referred to in that paragraph unless the director finds that the construction of the specified machinery or other such equipment to which the application pertains complies with the standards provided for by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の許可の申請は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、別表第一に掲げる機械等に係る特定機械等ごとに厚生労働大臣の登録を受けた者（以下「登録設計審査等機関」という。）が行つた当該申請に係る特定機械等の設計が前項の基準のうち特定機械等の構造に係る部分に適合しているかどうかの審査（以下「設計審査」という。）の結果を記載した書類を添付して行わなければならない。ただし、第五十三条の二第一項の規定により都道府県労働局長が当該申請に係る特定機械等の設計審査の業務を行うときは、この限りでない。 art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-3 An application for the permission referred to in paragraph (1) must be made, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, with a document attached that states the results of a review (hereinafter referred to as a "design review") conducted by a person registered by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for each type of specified machinery or other such equipment pertaining to the machinery or other such equipment set forth in Appended Table 1 (hereinafter referred to as a "registered agency for design reviews and post-manufacturing inspections") as to whether the design of the specified machinery or other such equipment to which the application pertains conforms to the part of the standards referred to in the preceding paragraph that relates to the construction of specified machinery or other such equipment; provided, however, that this does not apply when the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau carries out the operations for design reviews of the specified machinery or other such equipment to which the application pertains pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 53-2. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-37/par-1: 別表第一 → 労働安全衛生法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/appdx-1 - art-37/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-1 - art-37/par-3: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-1 - art-37/par-3: 別表第一 → 労働安全衛生法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/appdx-1 - art-37/par-3: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十七条第二項 (Article 37, paragraph (2)), art-37/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-2 - art-37/par-3: 第五十三条の二第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十三条の二第一項 (Article 53-2, paragraph (1)), art-53-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-2/par-1 ## Cited by 14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第三十七条第二項（製造の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第三十七条第三項（製造の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第四十六条第一項（登録設計審査等機関の登録） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-46/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第四十七条第三項（設計審査等の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-47/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-47/par-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十三条の三第一項（登録性能検査機関） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-3/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十四条第一項（登録個別検定機関） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-54/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十四条の二第一項（登録型式検定機関） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-54-2/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第九十三条第二項（産業安全専門官及び労働衛生専門官） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-93/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-93/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十二条第一項第三号（手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-112/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-112/par-1/item-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十二条第一項第四号の二（手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-112/par-1/item-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-112/par-1/item-4-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十二条の二第一項第一号（公示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-112-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-112-2/par-1/item-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-117/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 附則第二条第一項（登録設計審査等機関の登録に関する準備行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-5071-33/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-5071-33/art-2/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 附則第二条第二項（登録設計審査等機関の登録に関する準備行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-5071-33/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-5071-33/art-2/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働安全衛生法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/347AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000033), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Safety and Health Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-safety-and-health-act-20261017T185616-002, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17