# 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 / Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — 第二条 (Article 2) - Law: 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 (Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities), 昭和三十五年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（用語の意義） — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（用語の意義） — (Meanings of Terms) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2 **第一項** この法律において、次の各号に掲げる用語の意義は、当該各号に定めるところによる。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1 In this Act, the meanings of the terms set forth in the following items are as prescribed respectively in those items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 障害者　身体障害、知的障害、精神障害（発達障害を含む。第六号において同じ。）その他の心身の機能の障害（以下「障害」と総称する。）があるため、長期にわたり、職業生活に相当の制限を受け、又は職業生活を営むことが著しく困難な者をいう。 art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-1 person with a "disability":a person who has a physical impairment, intellectual impairment, mental impairment (including any prescribed developmental impairment; the same applies in item (vi)), or other such impairment of their physical or mental functions (hereinafter the term for any one of these is "impairment"), and faces substantial, prolonged limitations in their working life or extreme, prolonged difficulty in having a working life because of this; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 身体障害者　障害者のうち、身体障害がある者であつて別表に掲げる障害があるものをいう。 art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-2 person with a physical disability:a person with a disability who has a physical impairment, and whose impairment is set forth in the Appended Table; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 重度身体障害者　身体障害者のうち、身体障害の程度が重い者であつて厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。 art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-3 person with a severe physical disability:a person with a physical disability whose degree of physical impairment is severe, and who is as provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 知的障害者　障害者のうち、知的障害がある者であつて厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。 art-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-4 person with an intellectual disability:a person with a disability who has an intellectual impairment, and who is as provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 重度知的障害者　知的障害者のうち、知的障害の程度が重い者であつて厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。 art-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-5 person with a severe intellectual disability:a person with an intellectual disability whose degree of intellectual impairment is severe, and who is as provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 精神障害者　障害者のうち、精神障害がある者であつて厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。 art-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-6 person with a mental disability:a person with a disability who has a mental impairment, and who is as provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **七** 職業リハビリテーション　障害者に対して職業指導、職業訓練、職業紹介その他この法律に定める措置を講じ、その職業生活における自立を図ることをいう。 art-2/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-7 vocational rehabilitation:encouraging independence in the working lives of persons with disabilities by implementing vocational guidance, vocational training, job placement, and other measures provided for in this Act for them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-2/par-1/item-1: 第六号 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二条第一項第六号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-2/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-6 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 租税特別措置法 第七十一条の九第二項第三号（障害者を雇用する事業所の用に供されている土地等についての課税価格の計算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-71-9/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-71-9/par-2/item-3 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二条第一項第一号（用語の意義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-2/par-1/item-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十三条第三項（精神障害者に関する助成金の支給業務の実施等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-73/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-73/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18