# 次世代育成支援対策推進法 / Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — 第十八条 (Article 18) - Law: 次世代育成支援対策推進法 (Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children), 平成十五年法律第百二十号 - English title "Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（一般事業主に対する国の援助） — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-18 - 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. 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. --- ### 第十八条（一般事業主に対する国の援助） — (Assistance for General Employers by the National Government) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-18 **第一項** 国は、第十二条第一項又は第五項の規定により一般事業主行動計画を策定する一般事業主又はこれらの規定による届出をした一般事業主に対して、一般事業主行動計画の策定、公表若しくは労働者への周知又は当該一般事業主行動計画に基づく措置が円滑に実施されるように必要な助言、指導その他の援助の実施に努めるものとする。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-18/par-1 The national government is to endeavor to provide necessary advice, guidance, and other assistance to a general employer who formulates a general employer action plan pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1) or paragraph (5), or who has submitted a notification pursuant to those provisions, in order to facilitate a smooth formulation of the general employer action plan, public announcement of that action plan, its dissemination to workers, or implementation of measures based on the general employer action plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18/par-1: 第十二条第一項 → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-12/par-1 - art-18/par-1: 第五項 → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十二条第五項 (Article 12, paragraph (5)), art-12/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/art-12/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-12/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/next-generation-support-act/suppl-4151-120/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/suppl-4151-120/art-1/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 次世代育成支援対策推進法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000120/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 201 — 次世代育成支援対策推進法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19