# 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 / Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance — 第十八条 (Article 18)

- Law: 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 (Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance), 昭和四十四年法律第八十四号
- English title "Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance": 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（概算保険料の延納） — address `art-18`
- Text in force since: 2025-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-18
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-18
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### 第十八条（概算保険料の延納） — (Delayed Payment of Estimated Insurance Premiums)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-18</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、事業主の申請に基づき、その者が第十五条から前条までの規定により納付すべき労働保険料を延納させることができる。
<sup>art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-18/par-1</sup>
Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the government, at the request of the employer, may allow delayed payment of the labor insurance premiums payable by the employer pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 through the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-18/par-1: 第十五条から前条まで → 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 第十五条 (Article 15), art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-15
- art-18/par-1: 第十五条から前条まで → 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 第十六条 (Article 16), art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-16
- art-18/par-1: 第十五条から前条まで → 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-17

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2025-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/344AC0000000084/20251001_506AC0000000026), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3815/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-insurance-premium-collection-act-20261018T200646-001, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 201 — 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18