# 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 — 第四十六条 (Article 46) - 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: 第四十六条 (Article 46)（指定） — address `art-46` - Text in force since: 2022-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-46 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-46 - 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. --- ### 第四十六条（指定） — (Designation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-46 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、シルバー人材センター及びシルバー人材センター連合の健全な発展を図るとともに、定年退職者その他の高年齢退職者の能力の積極的な活用を促進することにより、高年齢者の福祉の増進に資することを目的とする一般社団法人又は一般財団法人であつて、次条に規定する業務を適正かつ確実に行うことができると認められるものを、その申請により、全国を通じて一個に限り、同条に規定する業務を行う者として指定することができる。 art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-46/par-1 Based on its application, The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may designate a general incorporated association or general incorporated foundation established for the purpose of contributing to the enhancement of the welfare of elderly persons by actively promoting the practical use of the skills of persons who have mandatorily retired or other elderly retirees, while making efforts for the sound development of the silver human resources centers and the silver human resources center associations which are recognized to be capable of properly and effectively carrying out the operations provided for in the following Article, as the person to carry out the operations provided for in the Article, as the single the person designated nationwide. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-46/par-1: 次条 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-47 ## 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 第四十七条第一項（業務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-47/par-1 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第四十八条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-48/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