# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（製造の許可） — address `art-56` - 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-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（製造の許可） — (Permission for Manufacturing) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56 **第一項** ジクロルベンジジン、ジクロル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おそれのある物で、政令で定めるもの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、厚生労働大臣の許可を受けなければならない。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-1 A person seeking to manufacture substances that could cause significant impairments of workers' health, such as dichlorobenzidine, preparations containing dichlorobenzidine, and that are specified by Cabinet Order must obtain permission in advance from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の許可の申請があつた場合には、その申請を審査し、製造設備、作業方法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-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-2 When a person has applied for the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare examines that application, and must not give the permission referred to in that paragraph unless the minister finds that the manufacturing equipment, work methods, and the like comply with the standards established by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の許可を受けた者（以下「製造者」という。）は、その製造設備を、前項の基準に適合するように維持しなければならない。 art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-3 A person that has obtained the permission referred to in paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as a "manufacturer") must keep its manufacturing equipment in conformity with the standards referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 製造者は、第二項の基準に適合する作業方法に従つて第一項の物を製造しなければならない。 art-56/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-4 A manufacturer must manufacture the substances referred to in paragraph (1) using a work method that conforms to the standards referred to in paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 厚生労働大臣は、製造者の製造設備又は作業方法が第二項の基準に適合していないと認めるときは、当該基準に適合するように製造設備を修理し、改造し、若しくは移転し、又は当該基準に適合する作業方法に従つて第一項の物を製造すべきことを命ずることができる。 art-56/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-5 On finding that a manufacturer's manufacturing equipment or work methods do not comply with the standards referred to in paragraph (2), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order that the manufacturing equipment be repaired, reconstructed, or relocated so as to conform with those standards, or that the substances referred to in paragraph (1) be manufactured using a work method that conforms with those standards. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 厚生労働大臣は、製造者がこの法律若しくはこれに基づく命令の規定又はこれらの規定に基づく処分に違反したときは、第一項の許可を取り消すことができる。 art-56/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-6 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, if a manufacturer violates the provisions of this Act, an order under this Act or administrative dispositions under these provisions, revoke the permission referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-1 - art-56/par-3: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-1 - art-56/par-3: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第二項 (Article 56, paragraph (2)), art-56/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-2 - art-56/par-4: 第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第二項 (Article 56, paragraph (2)), art-56/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-2 - art-56/par-4: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-1 - art-56/par-5: 第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第二項 (Article 56, paragraph (2)), art-56/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-2 - art-56/par-5: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-1 - art-56/par-6: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-1 ## Cited by 14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第二項（製造の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第三項（製造の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第四項（製造の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-4 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第五項（製造の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-5 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十六条第六項（製造の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-56/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-56/par-6 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十七条第一項（表示等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-57/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十七条第二項（表示等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-57/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十七条の二第一項（文書の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-57-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-57-2/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第九十三条第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-93/par-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十二条第一項第八号（手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-112/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-112/par-1/item-8 - 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 第百十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-119/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-119/par-1/item-1 - 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 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第四十五条第十六項（労働安全衛生法の適用に関する特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-45/par-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-16 --- ## 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