# 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 — 第二十四条 (Article 24) - 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（障害者職業カウンセラー） — address `art-24` - 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-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条（障害者職業カウンセラー） — (Vocational Counselors for Persons with Disabilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-24 **第一項** 機構は、障害者職業センターに、障害者職業カウンセラーを置かなければならない。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-24/par-1 JEED must appoint vocational counselors for persons with disabilities in the vocational centers for persons with disabilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 障害者職業カウンセラーは、厚生労働大臣が指定する試験に合格し、かつ、厚生労働大臣が指定する講習を修了した者その他厚生労働省令で定める資格を有する者でなければならない。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-24/par-2 A vocational counselor must be a person who has passed the examination that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates and has finished the training course that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates, or a person who has the credentials provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第二十条第一項第三号（障害者職業総合センター） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-20/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-20/par-1/item-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