# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第四十五条 (Article 45) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-45. 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: 第四十五条 (Article 45) — address `art-45` - 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-45 - 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. --- ### 第四十五条 art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-45 **第一項** 遺族補償を受けるべきであつた者が死亡した場合には、その者にかかる遺族補償を受ける権利は、消滅する。 art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-45/par-1 When a person who should be given compensation for bereaved family has died, that person's right to receive such compensation for bereaved family shall cease to exist. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合には、使用者は、前三条の規定による順位の者よりその死亡者を除いて、遺族補償を行わなければならない。 art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-45/par-2 In the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, the employer shall give compensation for bereaved family excluding the deceased from the persons with priority order under the provisions of any of the three preceding Articles. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, the employer shall give compensation for bereaved family excluding the deceased from the persons with priority order under the provisionss of any of the three preceding Articles." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb --- ## Cites - art-45/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-45/par-1 - art-45/par-2: 前三条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-42 - art-45/par-2: 前三条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第四十三条 (Article 43), art-43 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-43 - art-45/par-2: 前三条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第四十四条 (Article 44), art-44 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-44 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-09-23 - 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 (労働基準法施行規則), Article 45, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb), 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