# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第五十五条 (Article 55) - 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55)（製造等の禁止） — address `art-55` - 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-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条（製造等の禁止） — (Prohibition on Manufacturing and Other Activities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-55 **第一項** 黄りんマツチ、ベンジジン、ベンジジンを含有する製剤その他の労働者に重度の健康障害を生ずる物で、政令で定めるものは、製造し、輸入し、譲渡し、提供し、又は使用してはならない。ただし、試験研究のため製造し、輸入し、又は使用する場合で、政令で定める要件に該当するときは、この限りでない。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-55/par-1 It is prohibited to manufacture, import, transfer, provide, or use substances that cause significant impairments of workers' health, such as yellow phosphorus matches, benzidine, preparations containing benzidine, and that are specified by Cabinet Order; provided, however, that this does not apply if any of these is manufactured, imported or used for the sake of research or examination, and fall under the requirements specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第百十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-116/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17