# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第五十九条の二 (Article 59-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2. 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: 第五十九条の二 (Article 59-2) — address `art-59-2` - 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-59-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十九条の二 art-59-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2 **第一項** 法及びこれに基く命令に定める許可、認可、認定若しくは指定の申請、届出、報告、労働者名簿又は賃金台帳に用いるべき様式（様式第二十四号を除く。）は、必要な事項の最少限度を記載すべきことを定めるものであつて、横書、縦書その他異なる様式を用いることを妨げるものではない。 art-59-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2/par-1 The forms (except Form No. 24) of an application of permission, approval, recognition, or designation, a notification, a report, a roster of workers, or a wage ledger prescribed by the Act and orders based on the Act show what should be written as a minimum, and shall not preclude the use of vertical or horizontal writing, or any other format. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 使用者は、法及びこれに基づく命令に定める許可、認可、認定若しくは指定の申請、届出又は報告に用いるべき様式その他必要な書類に氏名を記載し、行政官庁に提出しなければならない。 art-59-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2/par-2 An employer must state its name on the forms and other necessary documents to be used for applications for permission, approval, recognition or designation, notifications or reports prescribed by the Act and orders based thereon, and submit them to the administrative government agency. machine translation, not official **第三項** 法及びこれに基づく命令の規定により、使用者が行政官庁に対して行う許可、認可、認定若しくは指定の申請、届出又は報告（以下この項及び次条において「届出等」という。）について、当該使用者が、情報通信技術を活用した行政の推進等に関する法律（平成十四年法律第百五十一号。次条において「情報通信技術活用法」という。）第六条第一項の規定により、同項に規定する電子情報処理組織を使用して当該届出等を行う場合には、前項の規定による氏名の記載については、厚生労働省の所管する法令に係る情報通信技術を活用した行政の推進等に関する法律施行規則（平成十五年厚生労働省令第四十号）第六条第一項各号に掲げる措置のほか、当該使用者の氏名を電磁的記録に記録することをもつて代えることができる。 art-59-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2/par-3 With respect to applications for permission, approval, recognition or designation, notifications or reports made by an employer to the administrative government agency under the provisions of the Act and orders based thereon (hereinafter referred to as "notifications, etc." in this paragraph and the following Article), in the case where the employer makes those notifications, etc. using the electronic data processing system provided in paragraph (1) of Article 6 of the Act on Promotion of Administration Utilizing Information and Communications Technology (Act No. 151 of 2002; referred to as the "Information and Communications Technology Utilization Act" in the following Article) pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the employer may, in lieu of stating its name under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and besides the measures listed in the items of paragraph (1) of Article 6 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Promotion of Administration Utilizing Information and Communications Technology with Regard to Laws and Regulations under the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No. 40 of 2003), record the name of the employer in an electronic or magnetic record. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-59-2/par-1: 様式第二十四号 → 労働基準法施行規則 様式第二十四号 (Form No. 24), form-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/form-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/form-24 - art-59-2/par-3: この項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十九条の二第三項 (Article 59-2, paragraph (3)), art-59-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2/par-3 - art-59-2/par-3: 次条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十九条の三 (Article 59-3), art-59-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-3 - art-59-2/par-3: 第六条第一項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000151, 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-59-2/par-3: 前項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十九条の二第二項 (Article 59-2, paragraph (2)), art-59-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第五十九条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2/par-3 - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第七十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3229-23/art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3229-23/art-70/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 - 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