# 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 / Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — 第二条 (Article 2) - Law: 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 (Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons), 昭和四十六年法律第六十八号 - English title "Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons": 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（定義） — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2022-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（定義） — (Definition) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2 **第一項** この法律において「高年齢者」とは、厚生労働省令で定める年齢以上の者をいう。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2/par-1 The term "elderly persons" as used in this Act means those whose ages are at or above the age specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** この法律において「高年齢者等」とは、高年齢者及び次に掲げる者で高年齢者に該当しないものをいう。 art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2/par-2 The term "elderly persons and others" as used in this Act means elderly persons and the following persons who do not fall into the category of elderly persons: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 中高年齢者（厚生労働省令で定める年齢以上の者をいう。次項において同じ。）である求職者（次号に掲げる者を除く。） art-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2/par-2/item-1 middle-aged and elderly persons (referring to those whose ages are at or above the age specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies in the following paragraph) who seek employment (excluding those listed in the following item); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 中高年齢失業者等（厚生労働省令で定める範囲の年齢の失業者その他就職が特に困難な厚生労働省令で定める失業者をいう。第三章第三節において同じ。） art-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2/par-2/item-2 middle-aged and elderly unemployed persons and others (unemployed persons whose ages are within the age range specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and other unemployed persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as those for whom finding employment is particularly difficult; the same applies in Chapter III, Section 3). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** この法律において「特定地域」とは、中高年齢者である失業者が就職することが著しく困難である地域として厚生労働大臣が指定する地域をいう。 art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2/par-3 The term "specified area" as used in this Act means an area designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as an area where it is extremely difficult for unemployed persons who are middle-aged and elderly to find employment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-2/par-2/item-1: 次号 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第二条第二項第二号 (Article 2, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-2/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2/par-2/item-2 - art-2/par-2/item-1: 次項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第二条第三項 (Article 2, paragraph (3)), art-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 雇用保険法 第六十二条第一項第三号（雇用安定事業） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-62/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-62/par-1/item-3 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第二条第二項第一号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-2/par-2/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2022-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/346AC0000000068/20221001_504AC0000000012), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4630/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 164 — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09