# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-42. 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42) — address `art-42` - 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-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条 art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-42 **第一項** 遺族補償を受けるべき者は、労働者の配偶者（婚姻の届出をしなくとも事実上婚姻と同様の関係にある者を含む。以下同じ。）とする。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-42/par-1 The person who should be given compensation for bereaved family shall be the spouse of a worker (including the person who has de facto marital relationship without a marriage notification; hereinafter the same shall apply). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 配偶者がない場合には、遺族補償を受けるべき者は、労働者の子、父母、孫及び祖父母で、労働者の死亡当時その収入によつて生計を維持していた者又は労働者の死亡当時これと生計を一にしていた者とし、その順位は、前段に掲げる順序による。この場合において、父母については、養父母を先にし実父母を後にする。 art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-42/par-2 When a worker has no spouse, the persons who should be given compensation for bereaved family shall be the worker's children, parents, grandchildren and grandparents, who made a living from the worker's income, or who lived on common living expenses at the time when the worker died and the priority is in the order mentioned above. As for parents, adoptive parents shall have priority over natural parents. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第四十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-43/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第四十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-45/par-2 --- ## 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 227 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10