# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三十四条の二の四 (Article 34-2-4)

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- 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: 第三十四条の二の四 (Article 34-2-4) — address `art-34-2-4`
- 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-34-2-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-34-2-4
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### 第三十四条の二の四
<sup>art-34-2-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-34-2-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-34-2-4</sup>

**第一項**  法第六十条第三項第二号の厚生労働省令で定める時間は、四十八時間とする。
<sup>art-34-2-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-34-2-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-34-2-4/par-1</sup>
The hours specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in item (ii) of paragraph (3) of Article 60 of the Act are to be 48 hours.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-34-2-4/par-1: 法第六十条第三項第二号 → 労働基準法 第六十条第三項第二号 (Article 60, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-60/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-60/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-60/par-3/item-2

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## 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
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-006, translated 2026-09-11
- 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