# 雇用保険法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act — 第九十六条 (Article 96)

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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: 第九十六条 (Article 96)（広域求職活動費の支給要件） — address `art-96`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-22
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### 第九十六条（広域求職活動費の支給要件） — Requirements for Payment of Wide-Area Job-Seeking Activity Expenses
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<sup>art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-96</sup>

  **第一項**  広域求職活動費は、受給資格者等が公共職業安定所の紹介により広範囲の地域にわたる求職活動（以下「広域求職活動」という。）をする場合であつて、次の各号のいずれにも該当するときに支給するものとする。
  <sup>art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-96/par-1</sup>
  Wide-area job-seeking activity expenses are to be paid where a qualified recipient, etc. engages in job-seeking activities covering a wide range of areas through referral by a Public Employment Security Office (hereinafter referred to as "wide-area job-seeking activities"), and the case falls under all of the following items.
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    **一**  法第二十一条、第三十二条第一項若しくは第二項（これらの規定を法第三十七条の四第六項及び第四十条第四項において準用する場合を含む。）又は法第五十二条第一項（法第五十五条第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による期間が経過した後に広域求職活動を開始したとき。
    <sup>art-96/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-96/par-1/item-1</sup>
    where the person has commenced wide-area job-seeking activities after the period under Article 21 of the Act or Article 32, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act (including where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37-4, paragraph (6) and Article 40, paragraph (4) of the Act) or Article 52, paragraph (1) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (4) of the Act) has elapsed;
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    **二**  広域求職活動に要する費用（以下「求職活動費」という。）が広域求職活動のために訪問する事業所（以下「訪問事業所」という。）の事業主から支給されないとき、又はその支給額が広域求職活動費の額に満たないとき。
    <sup>art-96/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-96/par-1/item-2</sup>
    where the expenses required for wide-area job-seeking activities (hereinafter referred to as "job-seeking expenses") are not paid by the employer of the place of business visited for the wide-area job-seeking activities (hereinafter referred to as the "visited business establishment"), or the amount paid is less than the amount of the wide-area job-seeking activity expenses.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-96/par-1/item-1: 法第二十一条 → 雇用保険法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-21 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-96/par-1/item-1: 第三十二条第一項 → 雇用保険法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-32/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-96/par-1/item-1: 第二項 → 雇用保険法 第三十二条第二項 (Article 32, paragraph (2)), art-32/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-32/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-96/par-1/item-1: 法第三十七条の四第六項 → 雇用保険法 第三十七条の四第六項 (Article 37-4, paragraph (6)), art-37-4/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-37-4/par-6 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-96/par-1/item-1: 第四十条第四項 → 雇用保険法 第四十条第四項 (Article 40, paragraph (4)), art-40/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-40/par-4 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-96/par-1/item-1: 法第五十二条第一項 → 雇用保険法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-52/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)
- art-96/par-1/item-1: 法第五十五条第四項 → 雇用保険法 第五十五条第四項 (Article 55, paragraph (4)), art-55/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-55/par-4 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116)

## Cited by

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

- 雇用保険法施行規則 第九十六条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-96-2/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
- 雇用保険法施行規則 附則第二条第二項（雇用保険法施行規則の一部改正に伴う経過措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4299-66/art-2/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-20261106T171536-024, 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-20261106T171536-024, 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
