# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第六十六条の二 (Article 66-2)

- 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
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- Provision: 第六十六条の二 (Article 66-2)（自発的健康診断の結果の提出） — address `art-66-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第六十六条の二（自発的健康診断の結果の提出） — (Submission of the Results of Self-Initiated Medical Checkups)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-66-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-2</sup>

**第一項**  午後十時から午前五時まで（厚生労働大臣が必要であると認める場合においては、その定める地域又は期間については午後十一時から午前六時まで）の間における業務（以下「深夜業」という。）に従事する労働者であつて、その深夜業の回数その他の事項が深夜業に従事する労働者の健康の保持を考慮して厚生労働省令で定める要件に該当するものは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、自ら受けた健康診断（前条第五項ただし書の規定による健康診断を除く。）の結果を証明する書面を事業者に提出することができる。
<sup>art-66-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-2/par-1</sup>
A worker engaged in work between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. (or 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the area or period designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as required; hereinafter referred to as "night work") whose frequency of night work and other particulars fall under the requirements provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of helping to maintain the health of workers engaged in night work, may submit to the employer a document certifying the results of a medical checkup that the worker has undergone at the worker's own initiative (this excludes a medical checkup as referred to in the proviso of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article), pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-66-2/par-1: 前条第五項 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条第五項 (Article 66, paragraph (5)), art-66/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66/par-5

## Cited by

5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条第一項（健康診断） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66/par-1
- 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の三第一項（健康診断の結果の記録） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-3/par-1
- 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の四第一項（健康診断の結果についての医師等からの意見聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-4/par-1
- 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の七第一項（保健指導等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-7/par-1
- 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 第四十五条第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-3

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## 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
