# 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 / Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members — 第七条 (Article 7) - Law: 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 (Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members), 平成三年法律第七十六号 - English title "Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members": 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（育児休業開始予定日の変更の申出等） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7 - 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. 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Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事業主は、前項の規定による労働者からの申出があった場合において、当該申出に係る変更後の育児休業開始予定日とされた日が当該申出があった日の翌日から起算して一月を超えない範囲内で厚生労働省令で定める期間を経過する日（以下この項において「期間経過日」という。）前の日であるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該申出に係る変更後の育児休業開始予定日とされた日から当該期間経過日（その日が当該申出に係る変更前の育児休業開始予定日とされていた日（前条第三項の規定による事業主の指定があった場合にあっては、当該事業主の指定した日。以下この項において同じ。）以後の日である場合にあっては、当該申出に係る変更前の育児休業開始予定日とされていた日）までの間のいずれかの日を当該労働者に係る育児休業開始予定日として指定することができる。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7/par-2 An employer may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in cases where a worker files an application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when the changed scheduled start date for childcare leave in the application falls before the day on which the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare within a period not exceeding one month from the day following the date of the application elapses (referred to as the "period expiry date" hereinafter in this paragraph), designate as a scheduled start date for childcare leave for the worker, any day during the period from the changed scheduled start date for childcare leave in the application until the period expiry date (in cases where the day falls after the original scheduled start date for childcare leave (in cases where the employer designates the day pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, the day designated by the employer; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the original scheduled start date for childcare leave in the application). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 育児休業申出をした労働者は、厚生労働省令で定める日までにその事業主に申し出ることにより、当該育児休業申出に係る育児休業終了予定日を一回に限り当該育児休業終了予定日とされた日後の日に変更することができる。 art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7/par-3 A worker who has filed an application for childcare leave may change the scheduled end date for the childcare leave to the day which falls after the scheduled end date for the childcare leave only once in the application, by notifying the employer on or before the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/par-1: 第五条第一項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-5/par-1 - art-7/par-1: 前条第三項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第六条第三項 (Article 6, paragraph (3)), art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-6/par-3 - art-7/par-1: この項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7/par-1 - art-7/par-2: 前項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7/par-1 - art-7/par-2: この項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7/par-2 - art-7/par-2: 前条第三項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第六条第三項 (Article 6, paragraph (3)), art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-6/par-3 ## Cited by 14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第五条第七項（育児休業の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-5/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-5/par-7 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第七条第一項（育児休業開始予定日の変更の申出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第七条第二項（育児休業開始予定日の変更の申出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7/par-2 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第八条第一項（育児休業申出の撤回等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-8/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第九条第一項（育児休業期間） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-9/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第九条の二第四項（出生時育児休業の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-9-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-9-2/par-4 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第九条の四第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-9-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-9-4/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第九条の五第一項（出生時育児休業期間等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-9-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-9-5/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第四項（介護休業の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-4 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十三条第一項（介護休業終了予定日の変更の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-13/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十五条第二項（介護休業期間） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-15/par-2 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第五十七条第一項（労働政策審議会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-57/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第六十条第二項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-60/par-2 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 附則第二条第一項（暫定措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/suppl-4031-76/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/suppl-4031-76/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/403AC0000000076/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4340/tb), retrieved 2026-09-23 - This site's parser, version 211 — 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05