# 雇用保険法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Article 16)

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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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（離職証明書の交付） — address `art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-22
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### 第十六条（離職証明書の交付） — Issuance of Separation Certificate
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16</sup>

**第一項**  事業主は、その雇用していた被保険者が離職したことにより被保険者でなくなつた場合において、その者が離職票の交付を請求するため離職証明書の交付を求めたときは、これをその者に交付しなければならない。ただし、第七条第一項の規定により離職証明書を提出した場合は、この限りでない。
<sup>art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-1</sup>
Where an insured person an employer employed has ceased to be an insured person by separation from service, and that person has requested the issuance of a separation certificate in order to request the issuance of a separation slip, the employer must issue it to that person; provided, however, that this does not apply where the employer has submitted a separation certificate pursuant to Article 7, paragraph (1).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-16/par-1: 第七条第一項 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-7/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条第一項第二号（離職票の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17/par-1/item-2
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条第一項第三号（離職票の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17/par-1/item-3
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第二十八条の三第二項（法第十六条第一項の厚生労働省令で定める率） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-28-3/par-2

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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-20261106T171536-005, 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
