# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第二十六条 (Article 26) - Law: 社会保険労務士法 (Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance), 昭和四十三年法律第八十九号 - English title "Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26)（名称の使用制限） — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-26 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十六条（名称の使用制限） — Restrictions on Name Use caption: machine translation, not official art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-26 **第一項** 社会保険労務士でない者は、社会保険労務士又は社労士その他の社会保険労務士に類似する名称を用いてはならない。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-26/par-1 A person who is not a labor and social security attorney must not use the name "labor and social security attorney" or "sharoshi" (the Japanese short form of the name "labor and social security attorney"), or any other name similar to "labor and social security attorney". machine translation, not official **第二項** 社会保険労務士法人でない者は、社会保険労務士法人又は社労士法人その他の社会保険労務士法人に類似する名称を用いてはならない。 art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-26/par-2 A person who is not a labor and social security attorney corporation must not use the name "labor and social security attorney corporation" or "sharoshi hojin" (the Japanese short form of the name "labor and social security attorney corporation"), or any other name similar to "labor and social security attorney corporation". machine translation, not official **第三項** 社会保険労務士会又は連合会でない団体は、社会保険労務士会若しくは全国社会保険労務士会連合会又は社労士会若しくは全国社労士会連合会その他の社会保険労務士会若しくは全国社会保険労務士会連合会に類似する名称を用いてはならない。 art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-26/par-3 A body that is not a labor and social security attorney's association or the Federation must not use the name "labor and social security attorney's association" or "Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations", or "sharoshikai" (the Japanese short form of the name "labor and social security attorney's association") or "zenkoku sharoshikai rengokai" (the Japanese short form of the name "Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations"), or any other name similar to "labor and social security attorney's association" or "Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations". machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第二十三条の二第一項（非社会保険労務士との提携の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-23-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-23-2/par-1 - 社会保険労務士法 第三十三条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-33/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-33/par-1/item-3 - 社会保険労務士法 附則第二十三条第一項（団体の名称使用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-3561-64/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-3561-64/art-23/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 社会保険労務士法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/343AC1000000089/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 社会保険労務士法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/903), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-and-social-security-attorney-act-20261018T204223-015, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch labor-and-social-security-attorney-act-20261018T204223-015, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 社会保険労務士法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18