# 労働契約法 / Labor Contracts Act — 第二十条 (Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-20. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 労働契約法 (Labor Contracts Act), 平成十九年法律第百二十八号 - English title "Labor Contracts 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（船員に関する特例） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（船員に関する特例） — (Special Provisions on Mariners) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-20 **第一項** 第十二条及び前章の規定は、船員法（昭和二十二年法律第百号）の適用を受ける船員（次項において「船員」という。）に関しては、適用しない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-20/par-1 The provisions of Article 12 and the preceding Article do not apply to mariners, to whom the Mariners Act (Act No. 100 of 1947) applies (referred to as "mariners" in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 船員に関しては、第七条中「第十二条」とあるのは「船員法（昭和二十二年法律第百号）第百条」と、第十条中「第十二条」とあるのは「船員法第百条」と、第十一条中「労働基準法（昭和二十二年法律第四十九号）第八十九条及び第九十条」とあるのは「船員法第九十七条及び第九十八条」と、第十三条中「前条」とあるのは「船員法第百条」とする。 art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-20/par-2 With regard to mariners, the term "Article 12" in Article 7 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 100 of the Mariners Act (Act No. 100 of 1947)", the term "Article 12" in Article 10 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 100 of the Mariners Act", the term "Article 89 and Article 90 of the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947)" in Article 11 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 97 and Article 98 of the Mariners Act," and the term "the preceding Article" in Article 13 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 100 of the Mariners Act." Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With regard to mariners, the term "Article 12" in Article 7 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 100 of the Mariners Act (Act No. 100 of 1947)", the term "Article 12" in Article 10 is be deemed to be replaced with "Article 100 of the Mariners Act", the term "Article 89 and Article 90 of the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947)" in Article 11 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 97 and Article 98 of the Mariners Act," and the term "the preceding Article" in Article 13 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 100 of the Mariners Act."" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb --- ## Cites - art-20/par-1: 第十二条 → 労働契約法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-12 - art-20/par-1: 次項 → 労働契約法 第二十条第二項 (Article 20, paragraph (2)), art-20/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-20/par-2 - art-20/par-2: 第七条 → 労働契約法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-7 - art-20/par-2: 第十二条 → 労働契約法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-12 - art-20/par-2: 船員法（昭和二十二年法律第百号）第百条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000100, 第百条 (Article 100), art-100 — not held in this collection - art-20/par-2: 第十条 → 労働契約法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-10 - art-20/par-2: 第十一条 → 労働契約法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-11 - art-20/par-2: 労働基準法（昭和二十二年法律第四十九号）第八十九条 → 労働基準法 第八十九条 (Article 89), art-89 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-89 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-89 - art-20/par-2: 第九十条 → 労働基準法 第九十条 (Article 90), art-90 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-90 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-90 - art-20/par-2: 船員法第九十七条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000100, 第九十七条 (Article 97), art-97 — not held in this collection - art-20/par-2: 第九十八条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000100, 第九十八条 (Article 98), art-98 — not held in this collection - art-20/par-2: 第十三条 → 労働契約法 第十三条 (Article 13), art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-13 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働契約法 第二十条第一項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-20/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働契約法 — the text in force from 2020-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/419AC0000000128/20200401_430AC0000000071), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Contracts Act (労働契約法), Article 20, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Contracts Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - This site's parser, version 211 — 労働契約法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10