# 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 / Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — 第十一条 (Article 11) - Law: 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 (Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life), 平成二十七年法律第六十四号 - English title "Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life": 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: 第十一条 (Article 11)（認定の取消し） — address `art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11 - 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. --- ### 第十一条（認定の取消し） — (Rescinding Approval as a General Employer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、認定一般事業主が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、第九条の認定を取り消すことができる。 art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may rescind approval as a general employer referred to in Article 9 if a certified general employer falls under any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第九条に規定する基準に適合しなくなったと認めるとき。 art-11/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-11/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11/par-1/item-1 cases when it is confirmed that a certified general employer no longer conforms to the standards prescribed in Article 9; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** この法律又はこの法律に基づく命令に違反したとき。 art-11/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-11/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11/par-1/item-2 cases in which a certified general employer violates this Act or orders under this Act; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "cases a certified general employer violates this Act or orders under this Act;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb **三** 不正の手段により第九条の認定を受けたとき。 art-11/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-11/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11/par-1/item-3 cases in which approval under Article 9 has been obtained by wrongful means. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-11/par-1: 第九条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-9 - art-11/par-1/item-1: 第九条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-9 - art-11/par-1/item-3: 第九条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-9 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十五条第一項第一号（特例認定一般事業主の認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-15/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-15/par-1/item-1 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十二条第一項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-32/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life, written 2026-10-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/427AC0000000064/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life (女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律), Article 11, paragraph (1), item (ii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 201 — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19