# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-26. 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: 労働基準法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年厚生省令第二十三号 - English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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) — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-26 - e-Gov law ID: 322M40000100023 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第二十六条 art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-26 **第一項** 使用者は、法別表第一第四号に掲げる事業において列車、気動車又は電車に乗務する労働者で予備の勤務に就くものについては、一箇月以内の一定の期間を平均し一週間当たりの労働時間が四十時間を超えない限りにおいて、法第三十二条の二第一項の規定にかかわらず、一週間について四十時間、一日について八時間を超えて労働させることができる。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-26/par-1 With regard to those workers who work on board a train, diesel railcar, or electric railcar as reserve crew members in the businesses designated in item (iv) of appended table 1 of the Act, an employer may make them work for a period exceeding 40 hours a week or a period exceeding 8 hours a day, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 32-2 of the Act, to the extent that the average weekly working hours for a fixed period of one month or less do not exceed 40 hours. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1: 法別表第一第四号 → 労働基準法 別表第一第四号 (Appended Table 1, item (iv)), appdx-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/appdx-1/item-4 (e-Gov law ID 322AC0000000049) - art-26/par-1: 法第三十二条の二第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十二条の二第一項 (Article 32-2, paragraph (1)), art-32-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-32-2/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 322AC0000000049) ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3629-31/art-4/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第二条第一項（暫定措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4029-29/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322M40000100023/20260401_508M60000100057), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - This site's parser, version 222 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10