# 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 — 第三十四条 (Article 34)

- 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: 第三十四条 (Article 34) — address `art-34`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-34
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-34
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### 第三十四条
<sup>art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-34</sup>

**第一項**  第十六条第五項において準用する職業安定法第四十一条第二項の規定による業務の停止の命令に違反して、労働者の募集に従事したときは、当該違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-34/par-1</sup>
If a person has engaged in the recruitment of workers in violation of a business suspension order pursuant to the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (2) of the Employment Security Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (5), the person who committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than one million yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-34/par-1: 第十六条第五項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十六条第五項 (Article 16, paragraph (5)), art-16/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-5
- art-34/par-1: 職業安定法第四十一条第二項 → 職業安定法 第四十一条第二項 (Article 41, paragraph (2)), art-41/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-41/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 第三十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-38/par-1

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch womens-engagement-act-20261019T013854-001, translated 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
