# 雇用保険法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act — 第十七条の四 (Article 17-4)

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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: 第十七条の四 (Article 17-4)（未支給失業等給付に関する事務の委嘱） — address `art-17-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-22
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### 第十七条の四（未支給失業等給付に関する事務の委嘱） — Entrustment of Affairs concerning Unpaid Benefits for Unemployment, etc.
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<sup>art-17-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-4</sup>

  **第一項**  死亡者に係る公共職業安定所の長は、未支給給付請求者の申出によつて必要があると認めるときは、その者について行う失業等給付の支給に関する事務を他の公共職業安定所長に委嘱することができる。
  <sup>art-17-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-4/par-1</sup>
  The Chief of the Public Employment Security Office of the deceased may, where finding it necessary on the application of a person claiming unpaid benefits, entrust the affairs concerning payment of benefits for unemployment, etc. to be conducted for that person to another Chief of the Public Employment Security Office.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  前項の規定による委嘱が行われた場合は、当該委嘱に係る未支給給付請求者について行う失業等給付に関する事務は、第一条第五項第五号の規定にかかわらず、当該委嘱を受けた公共職業安定所長が行う。
  <sup>art-17-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-4/par-2</sup>
  Where entrustment has been made pursuant to the preceding paragraph, notwithstanding Article 1, paragraph (5), item (v), the affairs concerning benefits for unemployment, etc. conducted for the person claiming unpaid benefits pertaining to that entrustment are to be conducted by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office who received the entrustment.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第三項**  前項の場合における前二条の規定の適用については、これらの規定中「死亡者に係る公共職業安定所」とあるのは、「委嘱を受けた公共職業安定所」とする。
  <sup>art-17-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-4/par-3</sup>
  For the application of the provisions of the preceding two Articles in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "Public Employment Security Office of the deceased" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "Public Employment Security Office that received the entrustment".
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-17-4/par-2: 前項 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条の四第一項 (Article 17-4, paragraph (1)), art-17-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-4/par-1
- art-17-4/par-2: 第一条第五項第五号 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第一条第五項第五号 (Article 1, paragraph (5), item (v)), art-1/par-5/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-1/par-5/item-5
- art-17-4/par-3: 前項 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条の四第二項 (Article 17-4, paragraph (2)), art-17-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-4/par-2
- art-17-4/par-3: 前二条 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2), art-17-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-2
- art-17-4/par-3: 前二条 → 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条の三 (Article 17-3), art-17-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-3

## Cited by

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

- 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条の四第二項（未支給失業等給付に関する事務の委嘱） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-4/par-2
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第十七条の四第三項（未支給失業等給付に関する事務の委嘱） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-17-4/par-3
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第四十七条第三項（未支給基本手当に係る失業の認定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-47/par-3
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第百一条の二十一第一項（通則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-21/par-1
- 雇用保険法施行規則 第百四十四条の二第一項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-144-2/par-1

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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-20261106T171536-006, 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
