# 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 — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4241-27`
- Text in force since: 2022-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27
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## 附　則 平成二四年四月六日法律第二七号
<sup>suppl-4241-27 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27</sup>

### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
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<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から起算して六月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the date prescribed in each item:
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  **一**  附則第九条の規定　公布の日
  <sup>suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1/item-1</sup>
  the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation;
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### 第二条（派遣労働者の雇用の安定） — Stable Employment for Dispatched Workers
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<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、この法律の施行により労働者派遣による就業ができなくなる派遣労働者その他の派遣労働者の雇用の安定を図るとともに、事業主の労働力の確保を支援するため、公共職業安定所又は職業紹介事業者（職業安定法（昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号）第四条第七項に規定する職業紹介事業者をいう。）の行う職業紹介の充実等必要な措置を講ずるように努めなければならない。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-2/par-1</sup>
The government must endeavor to take the necessary measures, such as enhancing the employment placement provided by Public Employment Security Offices or employment placement business operators (meaning employment placement business operators prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (7) of the Employment Security Act (Act No. 141 of 1947)), in order to achieve stable employment for dispatched workers who will become unable to work through worker dispatch as a result of the enforcement of this Act and for other dispatched workers, and to support entities in securing a workforce.
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### 第三条（検討） — Review
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<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、この法律の施行後三年を目途として、この法律による改正後の労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律等の規定の施行の状況等を勘案し、更なる派遣労働者の保護のための方策を含め、これらの法律の規定について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-1</sup>
Approximately three years after this Act comes into effect, the government is to review the provisions of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers and other Acts as amended by this Act, including measures for the further protection of dispatched workers, taking into consideration the conditions of enforcement of those provisions, etc., and, if it finds it necessary, is to take required measures based on the results of that review.
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**第二項**  政府は、前項の規定を踏まえつつ、派遣労働者の保護を図ることの重要性にかんがみ、派遣先の責任の在り方等派遣労働者の保護を図る観点から特に必要と認められる事項について、速やかに検討を行うものとする。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-2</sup>
Taking into account the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and in view of the importance of protecting dispatched workers, the government is to promptly review the matters found to be particularly necessary from the viewpoint of protecting dispatched workers, such as how the responsibilities of clients should be framed.
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**第三項**  政府は、この法律の施行後、この法律による改正後の労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律等の規定の施行の状況、高齢者の就業の実態等を勘案し、常時雇用する労働者でない者についての労働者派遣の在り方、物の製造の業務についての労働者派遣の在り方及び特定労働者派遣事業（労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律第二条第五号に規定する特定労働者派遣事業をいう。）の在り方について、速やかに検討を行うものとする。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-3</sup>
After this Act comes into effect, the government is to promptly review how worker dispatch involving persons who are not workers employed on a regular basis should be framed, how worker dispatch for work of manufacturing goods should be framed, and how specified worker dispatching services (meaning the specified worker dispatching services prescribed in Article 2, item (v) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers) should be framed, taking into consideration the status of enforcement of the provisions of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers and other Acts as amended by this Act, the actual state of work of elderly persons, and other circumstances.
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### 第四条（一般労働者派遣事業の許可の取消し等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures for Revocation of a General Worker Dispatching Business License
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<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に第一条の規定による改正前の労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の就業条件の整備等に関する法律又は第四条の規定による改正前の高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律（附則第七条において「旧高年齢者等雇用安定法」という。）の規定により許可を受けて、又は届出書を提出して労働者派遣事業を行っている者に対する許可の取消し若しくは事業の廃止の命令又は事業の停止の命令に関しては、この法律の施行前に生じた事由については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-4/par-1</sup>
With regard to the revocation of permission, an order to abolish a business, or an order to suspend a business concerning a person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is conducting temporary labor services with permission obtained, or by submitting a written notification, pursuant to the provisions of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Improving the Working Conditions of Dispatched Workers prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 or the Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 4 (referred to as the "Former Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons" in Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions then in force continue to govern as to grounds arising before this Act comes into effect.
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### 第七条（高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons
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<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  施行日において現に旧高年齢者等雇用安定法第四十二条第二項（旧高年齢者等雇用安定法第四十五条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による届出をして無料の職業紹介事業を行っているシルバー人材センター又はシルバー人材センター連合は、施行日から起算して二年を経過する日までの間は、なお従前の例により当該無料の職業紹介事業を行うことができる。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1</sup>
A silver human resources center or silver human resources center association that, on the effective date, is actually providing a free employment placement service after having submitted a notification under Article 42, paragraph (2) of the Former Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons (including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 45 of the Former Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons) may continue to provide that free employment placement service under the provisions then in force until the day on which two years have elapsed from the effective date.
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**第二項**  前項のシルバー人材センター又はシルバー人材センター連合が、同項の期間において、第四条の規定による改正後の高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律第四十二条第二項（同法第四十五条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による有料の職業紹介事業の届出をしたときは、旧高年齢者等雇用安定法第四十二条第三項（旧高年齢者等雇用安定法第四十五条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により読み替えて適用する職業安定法第三十三条の二第七項において準用する同法第三十二条の八第一項の規定による廃止の届出をしたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-2</sup>
If a silver human resources center or silver human resources center association referred to in the preceding paragraph has, during the period referred to in that paragraph, submitted a notification of a fee-based employment placement service pursuant to the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (2) of the Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons as amended by the provisions of Article 4 (including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 45 of that Act), it is deemed to have submitted a notification of abolition pursuant to the provisions of Article 32-8, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 33-2, paragraph (7) of that Act as applied with replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (3) of the Former Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons (including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 45 of the Former Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons).
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### 第八条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
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<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にした行為及び前条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
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### 第九条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order
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<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  この附則に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。
<sup>suppl-4241-27/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-9/par-1</sup>
Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.
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## Cites
- suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第九条 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-4241-27/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-9
- suppl-4241-27/art-2/par-1: 職業安定法（昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号）第四条第七項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000141, 第四条第七項 (Article 4, paragraph (7)), art-4/par-7 — not held in this collection
- suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-2: 前項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-1
- suppl-4241-27/art-4/par-1: 附則第七条 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4241-27/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-7
- suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-2: 前項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1
- suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-2: 職業安定法第三十三条の二第七項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000141, 第三十三条の二第七項 (Article 33-2, paragraph (7)), art-33-2/par-7 — not held in this collection
- suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-2: 同法第三十二条の八第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000141, 第三十二条の八第一項 (Article 32-8, paragraph (1)), art-32-8/par-1 — not held in this collection
- suppl-4241-27/art-8/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 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-1

## Cited by

5 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-1/par-1/item-1
- 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第三条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-3/par-2
- 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第四条第一項（一般労働者派遣事業の許可の取消し等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-4/par-1
- 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第七条第二項（高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-7/par-2
- 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 附則第八条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/suppl-4241-27/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/suppl-4241-27/art-8/par-1

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## Sources

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- 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-employment-act-20261009T093722-005, translated 2026-10-09
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-employment-act-20261009T093722-006, translated 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
