# 雇用保険法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act — 第三十一条の五 (Article 31-5)
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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: 第三十一条の五 (Article 31-5)（法第二十条の二の厚生労働省令で定める者） — address `art-31-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-22
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-31-5
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### 第三十一条の五（法第二十条の二の厚生労働省令で定める者） — Persons Specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 20-2 of the Act
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art-31-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-31-5
**第一項** 法第二十条の二の厚生労働省令で定める者は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するものとする。
art-31-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-31-5/par-1
The persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 20-2 of the Act are to be those who fall under any of the following items.
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**一** 法第二十条第一項第一号に規定する基準日以前に事業を開始し、当該基準日後に当該事業に専念する者
art-31-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-31-5/par-1/item-1
a person who commenced a business on or before the basis day prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act and engages exclusively in that business after that basis day;
machine translation, not official
**二** その他事業を開始した者に準ずるものとして管轄公共職業安定所の長が認めた者
art-31-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-31-5/par-1/item-2
any other person whom the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds to be equivalent to a person who has commenced a business.
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## Cites
- art-31-5: 法第二十条の二 → 雇用保険法 第二十条の二 (Article 20-2), art-20-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-20-2 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-31-5/par-1: 法第二十条の二 → 雇用保険法 第二十条の二 (Article 20-2), art-20-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-20-2 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-31-5/par-1/item-1: 法第二十条第一項第一号 → 雇用保険法 第二十条第一項第一号 (Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-20/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-20/par-1/item-1 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
## Cited by
1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.
- 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-20261106T171536-010, 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