# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第五十五条 (Article 55) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-55. 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55) — address `art-55` - 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-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条 art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-55 **第一項** 法第百八条の規定による賃金台帳は、常時使用される労働者（一箇月を超えて引続き使用される日々雇い入れられる者を含む。）については様式第二十号日々雇い入れられる者（一箇月を超えて引続き使用される者を除く。）については様式第二十一号によつて、これを調製しなければならない。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-55/par-1 A wage ledger pursuant to the provisions of Article 108 of the Act must be prepared for regular workers (including those hired on a daily basis who continue to be employed for a period exceeding one month) according to Form No. 20, and for workers hired on a daily basis according to Form No. 21 (excluding those who continue to be employed for a period exceeding one month). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55/par-1: 法第百八条 → 労働基準法 第百八条 (Article 108), art-108 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-108 (e-Gov law ID 322AC0000000049) - art-55/par-1: 様式第二十号 → 労働基準法施行規則 様式第二十号 (Form No. 20), form-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/form-20 - art-55/par-1: 様式第二十一号 → 労働基準法施行規則 様式第二十一号 (Form No. 21), form-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/form-21 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第五十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-55-2/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