# 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 — 第三十七条 (Article 37)

- 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（対象障害者の雇用に関する事業主の責務） — address `art-37`
- 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-37
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-37
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### 第三十七条（対象障害者の雇用に関する事業主の責務） — (Employer Responsibilities in the Employment of Qualifying Disabled Persons)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-37</sup>

  **第一項**  全て事業主は、対象障害者の雇用に関し、社会連帯の理念に基づき、適当な雇用の場を与える共同の責務を有するものであつて、進んで対象障害者の雇入れに努めなければならない。
  <sup>art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-37/par-1</sup>
  All employers have a collective responsibility to extend appropriate places of employment based on the principles of social solidarity as it relates to the employment of qualifying disabled persons, and must endeavor to readily hire qualifying disabled persons.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  この章、第八十六条第二号及び附則第三条から第六条までにおいて「対象障害者」とは、身体障害者、知的障害者又は精神障害者（精神保健及び精神障害者福祉に関する法律（昭和二十五年法律第百二十三号）第四十五条第二項の規定により精神障害者保健福祉手帳の交付を受けているものに限る。第四節及び第七十九条第一項を除き、以下同じ。）をいう。
  <sup>art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-37/par-2</sup>
  The term "qualifying disabled person" as used in this Chapter, Article 86, item (ii) and Articles 3 through 6 of the Supplementary Provisions means a person with a physical disability, a person with an intellectual disability, or a person with a mental disability (but only one who has been issued a mental disability certificate pursuant to the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (2) of the Act on Mental Health and Welfare for Persons with Mental Disorders or Disabilities (Act No. 123 of 1950); the same applies hereinafter, except in Section 4 and Article 79, paragraph (1)).
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-37/par-2: 第八十六条第二号 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第八十六条第一項第二号 (Article 86, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-86/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-86/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-86/par-1/item-2
- art-37/par-2: 附則第三条から第六条まで → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-3351-123/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3351-123/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3351-123/art-3
- art-37/par-2: 附則第三条から第六条まで → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-3351-123/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3351-123/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3351-123/art-4
- art-37/par-2: 附則第三条から第六条まで → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-3351-123/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3351-123/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3351-123/art-5
- art-37/par-2: 附則第三条から第六条まで → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-3351-123/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-3351-123/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-3351-123/art-6
- art-37/par-2: 精神保健及び精神障害者福祉に関する法律（昭和二十五年法律第百二十三号）第四十五条第二項 → e-Gov law 325AC0100000123, 第四十五条第二項 (Article 45, paragraph (2)), art-45/par-2 — not held in this collection
- art-37/par-2: 第七十九条第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79/par-1

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-001, translated 2026-10-19
- 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