# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第四十三条の二 (Article 43-2) - 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: 第四十三条の二 (Article 43-2) — address `art-43-2` - 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-43-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2 - 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. --- ### 第四十三条の二 art-43-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-43-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県労働局長は、第四十二条の機械等を製造し、又は輸入した者が、当該機械等で、次の各号のいずれかに該当するものを譲渡し、又は貸与した場合には、その者に対し、当該機械等の回収又は改善を図ること、当該機械等を使用している者へ厚生労働省令で定める事項を通知することその他当該機械等が使用されることによる労働災害を防止するため必要な措置を講ずることを命ずることができる。 art-43-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-43-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2/par-1 If a person that has manufactured or imported machinery or other such equipment as referred to in in Article 42 has transferred or leased out machinery or other such equipment so manufactured or imported that falls under one of the following items, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may order that person to recall or improve the machinery or other such equipment, to provide the information specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to persons using that machinery or other such equipment, or to otherwise take necessary measures to prevent an industrial injury due to the machinery's or other such equipment's being used: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 次条第五項の規定に違反して、同条第四項の表示が付され、又はこれと紛らわしい表示が付された機械等 art-43-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-43-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2/par-1/item-1 machinery or other such equipment to which a label as referred to in paragraph (4) of the following Article or a label misleadingly similar thereto has been attached in violation of the provisions of paragraph (5) of that Article; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第四十四条の二第三項に規定する型式検定に合格した型式の機械等で、第四十二条の厚生労働大臣が定める規格又は安全装置（第四号及び別表第四第十四号において「規格等」という。）を具備していないもの art-43-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-43-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2/par-1/item-2 machinery or other such equipment that has passed a type examination provided for in paragraph (3) of Article 44-2 but that does not conform to the standards or safety device equipment requirements specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare which are referred to in Article 42 (referred to as "standards or safety device equipment requirements" in item (iv) and in item (xiv) of Appended Table 4); machine translation, not official **三** 第四十四条の二第六項の規定に違反して、同条第五項の表示が付され、又はこれと紛らわしい表示が付された機械等 art-43-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-43-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2/par-1/item-3 machinery or other such equipment to which a label as referred to in paragraph (5) of Article 44-2 or a label misleadingly similar thereto has been attached in violation of the provisions of paragraph (6) of that Article; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 第四十四条の二第一項の機械等以外の機械等で、規格等を具備していないもの art-43-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-43-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2/par-1/item-4 machinery or other such equipment other than as referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 44-2 which does not conform to the standards or safety device equipment requirements. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-43-2/par-1: 第四十二条 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-42 - art-43-2/par-1/item-1: 次条第五項 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十四条第五項 (Article 44, paragraph (5)), art-44/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-44/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-44/par-5 - art-43-2/par-1/item-1: 同条第四項 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十四条第四項 (Article 44, paragraph (4)), art-44/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-44/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-44/par-4 - art-43-2/par-1/item-2: 第四十四条の二第三項 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十四条の二第三項 (Article 44-2, paragraph (3)), art-44-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-44-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-44-2/par-3 - art-43-2/par-1/item-2: 第四十二条 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-42 - art-43-2/par-1/item-2: 第四号 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十三条の二第一項第四号 (Article 43-2, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-43-2/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-43-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2/par-1/item-4 - art-43-2/par-1/item-2: 別表第四第十四号 → 労働安全衛生法 別表第四第十四号 (Appended Table 4, item (xiv)), appdx-4/item-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/appdx-4/item-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/appdx-4/item-14 - art-43-2/par-1/item-3: 第四十四条の二第六項 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十四条の二第六項 (Article 44-2, paragraph (6)), art-44-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-44-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-44-2/par-6 - art-43-2/par-1/item-3: 同条第五項 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十四条の二第五項 (Article 44-2, paragraph (5)), art-44-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-44-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-44-2/par-5 - art-43-2/par-1/item-4: 第四十四条の二第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十四条の二第一項 (Article 44-2, paragraph (1)), art-44-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-44-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-44-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第四十三条の二第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-43-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-43-2/par-1/item-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-119/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-119/par-1/item-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