# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第五十五条の二 (Article 55-2)

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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: 第五十五条の二 (Article 55-2) — address `art-55-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第五十五条の二
<sup>art-55-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-55-2</sup>

**第一項**  使用者は、年次有給休暇管理簿、第五十三条による労働者名簿又は第五十五条による賃金台帳をあわせて調製することができる。
<sup>art-55-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-55-2/par-1</sup>
An employer may prepare the annual paid leave management register, the roster of workers under Article 53 or the wage ledger under Article 55 together.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-55-2/par-1: 第五十三条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十三条 (Article 53), art-53 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-53
- art-55-2/par-1: 第五十五条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十五条 (Article 55), art-55 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-55

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 労働基準法施行規則 第二十四条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-7/par-1

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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-007, 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
