# 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 — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（広域障害者職業センター） — address `art-21` - 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-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（広域障害者職業センター） — (Regional Vocational Centers for Persons with Disabilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21 **第一項** 広域障害者職業センターは、広範囲の地域にわたり、系統的に職業リハビリテーションの措置を受けることを必要とする障害者に関して、障害者職業能力開発校又は独立行政法人労働者健康安全機構法（平成十四年法律第百七十一号）第十二条第一項第一号に掲げる療養施設その他の厚生労働省令で定める施設との密接な連携の下に、次に掲げる業務を行う。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1 A regional vocational center for persons with disabilities provides the following services over a broad region in close collaboration with the polytechnic schools for persons with disabilities and the medical treatment facilities set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act on the Japan Corporation of Occupational Health and Safety (Act No. 171 of 2002), and other facilities provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for persons with disabilities who need to systematically have vocational rehabilitation measures taken for them: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 厚生労働省令で定める障害者に対する職業評価、職業指導及び職業講習を系統的に行うこと。 art-21/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1/item-1 systematically providing persons with disabilities provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare with vocational evaluations, vocational guidance, and vocational training courses; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "systematically providing persons with disabilities provided for by Order of the Ministry of the Health, Labour and Welfare with vocational evaluations, vocational guidance, and vocational training courses;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb **二** 前号の措置を受けた障害者を雇用し、又は雇用しようとする事業主に対する障害者の雇用管理に関する事項についての助言その他の援助を行うこと。 art-21/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1/item-2 giving advice and other assistance in personnel management matters concerning persons with disabilities to employers that employ or seek to employ persons with disabilities who have had the measures referred to in the preceding item taken for them; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前二号に掲げる業務に附帯する業務を行うこと。 art-21/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1/item-3 providing services incidental to those set forth in the preceding two items. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-21/par-1: 独立行政法人労働者健康安全機構法（平成十四年法律第百七十一号）第十二条第一項第一号 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000171, 第十二条第一項第一号 (Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-12/par-1/item-1 — not held in this collection - art-21/par-1/item-2: 前号 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二十一条第一項第一号 (Article 21, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-21/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1/item-1 - art-21/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二十一条第一項第一号 (Article 21, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-21/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1/item-1 - art-21/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二十一条第一項第二号 (Article 21, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-21/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二十一条第一項第二号（広域障害者職業センター） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1/item-2 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二十一条第一項第三号（広域障害者職業センター） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-21/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-21/par-1/item-3 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二十五条第二項（障害者職業センター相互の連絡及び協力等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-25/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities (障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律), Article 21, paragraph (1), item (i) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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