# 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 — 第四十条 (Article 40) - 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: 第四十条 (Article 40) — address `art-40` - Text in force since: 2022-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条 art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-40 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、前条第一項の指定をした業種及び職種が同項に規定する基準に適合しなくなつたときは、遅滞なく、その指定を取り消すものとする。 art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-40/par-1 When the business type and job type for which a designation set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article has ceased to conform to the standards prescribed in the paragraph, the prefectural governor is to revoke the designation without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第四項の規定は、前項の規定による取消しについて準用する。 art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-40/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a revocation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-40/par-1: 前条第一項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-39/par-1 - art-40/par-2: 前項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第四十条第一項 (Article 40, paragraph (1)), art-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-40/par-1 - art-40/par-2: 前条第四項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第三十九条第四項 (Article 39, paragraph (4)), art-39/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-39/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-39/par-4 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第四十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-40/par-2 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第四十五条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-45/par-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