# 雇用保険法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act — 第百四十条の三 (Article 140-3)

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- Law: 雇用保険法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act), 昭和五十年労働省令第三号
- English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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: 第百四十条の三 (Article 140-3)（返還命令等） — address `art-140-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-22
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### 第百四十条の三（返還命令等） — Order to Return Benefits
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<sup>art-140-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-140-3</sup>

  **第一項**  偽りその他不正の行為により雇用調整助成金その他の法第四章の規定により支給される給付金の支給を受けた事業主又は事業主団体若しくはその連合団体がある場合には、都道府県労働局長は、その者に対して、支給した給付金の全部又は一部を返還することを命ずることができ、また、当該偽りその他不正の行為により支給を受けた第百二十条に規定する雇用関係助成金及び第百三十九条の四第一項に規定する雇用関係助成金については、当該返還を命ずる額の二割に相当する額以下の金額を納付することを命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-140-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-140-3/par-1</sup>
  Where there is an employer, or an employers' organization or a federation thereof, that has received, by deception or other wrongful acts, an employment adjustment grant or any other benefit paid under the provisions of Chapter IV of the Act, the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau may order that person to return all or part of the benefit paid and, with regard to the employment-related grants prescribed in Article 120 and the employment-related grants prescribed in Article 139-4, paragraph (1) that were received by that deception or other wrongful acts, may order that person to pay an amount not exceeding an amount equivalent to 2/10 of the amount ordered to be returned.
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  **第二項**  前項の場合において、代理人等又は訓練機関が偽りの届出、報告、証明等をしたため同項の規定による雇用関係助成金が支給されたものであるときは、都道府県労働局長は、その代理人等又は訓練機関に対し、その支給を受けた者と連帯して、同項の規定による雇用関係助成金の返還又は納付を命ぜられた金額の納付をすることを命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-140-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-140-3/par-2</sup>
  In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, where employment-related grants under that paragraph were paid because an agent, etc. or a training institution made a false notification, report, certificate, etc., the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau may order that agent, etc. or training institution to pay, jointly and severally with the person who received them, the amount ordered to be returned or paid with regard to the employment-related grants under that paragraph.
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## Cites
- art-140-3/par-1: 第百二十条 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第百二十条 (Article 120), art-120 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-120
- art-140-3/par-1: 第百三十九条の四第一項 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第百三十九条の四第一項 (Article 139-4, paragraph (1)), art-139-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-139-4/par-1
- art-140-3/par-2: 前項 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第百四十条の三第一項 (Article 140-3, paragraph (1)), art-140-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-140-3/par-1

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 雇用保険法施行規則 第百四十条の三第二項（返還命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-140-3/par-2
- 雇用保険法施行規則 附則第二条第五項（雇用保険法施行規則の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5089-74/art-2/par-5
- 雇用保険法施行規則 附則第二条第七項（雇用保険法施行規則の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5089-74/art-2/par-7

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 雇用保険法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-10-22 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/350M50002000003/20261022_508M60000100149), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance-20261106T171536-075, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance-20261106T171536-075, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 228 — 雇用保険法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
