# 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 — 第十七条 (Article 17) - 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: 第十七条 (Article 17) — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条 art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-17 **第一項** 公共職業安定所は、前条第四項の規定による届出をして労働者の募集に従事する承認中小事業主団体に対して、雇用情報及び職業に関する調査研究の成果を提供し、かつ、これらに基づき当該募集の内容又は方法について指導することにより、当該募集の効果的かつ適切な実施を図るものとする。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-17/par-1 Public employment security offices are to provide employment information and results of occupational research and study, and, based on these, provide guidance on the content or means of the recruitment, thereby achieving effective and appropriate implementation of the recruitment to approved employer organizations for small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in the recruitment of workers after giving the notification pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, paragraph (4). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Public employment security offices are to provide employment information and results of occupational research and study, and, based on these, provide guidance on the content or means of the recruitment, thereby achieving effective and appropriate implementation of the recruitment to approved employer organizations for small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in the recruitment of workers after giving the notification pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, paragraph (4)," — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb --- ## Cites - art-17/par-1: 前条第四項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十六条第四項 (Article 16, paragraph (4)), art-16/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 第十六条第二項（委託募集の特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-2 --- ## 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 17, paragraph (1) — 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