# 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 — 第二十四条 (Article 24) - 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（国等からの受注機会の増大） — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条（国等からの受注機会の増大） — (Increasing Opportunities to Receive Orders from the National Government) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-24 **第一項** 国は、女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に資するため、国及び公庫等（沖縄振興開発金融公庫その他の特別の法律によって設立された法人であって政令で定めるものをいう。）の役務又は物件の調達に関し、予算の適正な使用に留意しつつ、認定一般事業主、特例認定一般事業主その他の女性の職業生活における活躍に関する状況又は女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する取組の実施の状況が優良な一般事業主（次項において「認定一般事業主等」という。）の受注の機会の増大その他の必要な施策を実施するものとする。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-24/par-1 In order to contribute to the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life, while paying special attention to the proper use of budget, the national government is to increase opportunities and implement other necessary measures for certified general employers, specially certified general employers, and other general employers which have favorable conditions for women's active engagement in professional life or have implemented favorable initiatives for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life (referred to as the "certified general employers, etc." in the following paragraph) to receive orders for procurement of services or goods from the national government or public finance corporations (meaning the Okinawa Development Finance Corporation and other corporations established under special laws as specified by Cabinet Order). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 地方公共団体は、国の施策に準じて、認定一般事業主等の受注の機会の増大その他の必要な施策を実施するように努めるものとする。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-24/par-2 Local governments are to endeavor to increase opportunities and implement other necessary measures for certified general employers, etc. to receive orders, in accordance with the measures of the national government. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-24/par-1: 次項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第二十四条第二項 (Article 24, paragraph (2)), art-24/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-24/par-2 ## 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 第二十四条第一項（国等からの受注機会の増大） — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-24/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 - 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