# 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 — 第四十五条 (Article 45) - 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: 第四十五条 (Article 45) — address `art-45` - 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-45 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十五条 art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45 **第一項** 親事業主であつて、特定の株式会社（当該親事業主の子会社及び第四十五条の三第一項の認定に係る組合員たる事業主であるものを除く。）と厚生労働省令で定める特殊の関係にあるもので、当該親事業主、当該子会社及び当該株式会社（以下「関係会社」という。）の申請に基づいて当該親事業主及び当該関係会社について次に掲げる基準に適合する旨の厚生労働大臣の認定を受けたものに係る第四十三条第一項及び第七項の規定の適用については、当該関係会社が雇用する労働者は当該親事業主のみが雇用する労働者と、当該関係会社の事業所は当該親事業主の事業所とみなす。 art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-1 To apply the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and paragraph (7) to a parent employer that has a special connection provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to a specific stock company (other than the subsidiaries of the parent employer and employers that are the members associated with a certification as referred to in Article 45-3, paragraph (1)), and that, based on the application of the parent employer, the relevant subsidiary, and the relevant stock company (hereinafter referred to as a "related company"), has had it certified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare that the parent employer and the related company conform to the following criteria, the workers that the related company employs are deemed to be workers that the parent employer solely employs, and the related company's places of business are deemed to be the parent employer's places of business: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "To apply the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and paragraph (7) to a parent employer that has a special connection provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to a specific stock company (other than the subsidiaries of the parent employer and employers that are the members associated with a certification as referred to in Article 45-3, paragraph (1)), and that, based on the application of the parent employer, the relevant subsidiary, and the relevant stock company (hereinafter referred to as a "related company")), has had it certified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare that the parent employer and the related company conform to the following criteria, the workers that the related company employs are deemed to be workers that the parent employer solely employs, and the related company's places of business are deemed to be the parent employer's places of business:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb **一** 当該関係会社の行う事業と当該子会社の行う事業との人的関係若しくは営業上の関係が緊密であること、又は当該関係会社が当該子会社に出資していること。 art-45/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-1/item-1 the same persons are closely connected with both the business that the related company does and the business that the subsidiary does, there are close operational connections in the business that the related company and the subsidiary do, or the related company has made a financial contribution to the subsidiary; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該親事業主が第七十八条第二項各号に掲げる業務を担当する者を同項の規定により選任しており、かつ、その者が当該子会社及び当該関係会社についても同項第一号に掲げる業務を行うこととしていること。 art-45/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-1/item-2 pursuant to the provisions of Article 78, paragraph (2), the parent employer has appointed a person to handle the tasks set forth in the items of that paragraph, and has decided that the person in question will also carry out the tasks set forth in item (i) of that paragraph for the subsidiary and the related company; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該親事業主が、自ら雇用する対象障害者である労働者並びに当該子会社及び当該関係会社に雇用される対象障害者である労働者の雇用の促進及び雇用の安定を確実に達成することができると認められること。 art-45/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-1/item-3 it is recognized that the parent employer is sure to be able to succeed in facilitating the employment of qualifying disabled workers it employs and qualifying disabled workers employed by the relevant subsidiary and related company, and in stabilizing employment for those workers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 関係会社が、前条第一項又は次条第一項の認定を受けたものである場合は、前項の申請をすることができない。 art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-2 If a related company has been granted the certification referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or paragraph (1) of the following Article, it may not file an application as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前条第四項の規定は、第一項の場合について準用する。 art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-3 The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-45/par-1: 第四十五条の三第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条の三第一項 (Article 45-3, paragraph (1)), art-45-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45-3/par-1 - art-45/par-1: 第四十三条第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十三条第一項 (Article 43, paragraph (1)), art-43/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-43/par-1 - art-45/par-1: 第七項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十三条第七項 (Article 43, paragraph (7)), art-43/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-43/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-43/par-7 - art-45/par-1/item-2: 第七十八条第二項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十八条第二項 (Article 78, paragraph (2)), art-78/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-78/par-2 - art-45/par-1/item-2: 同項第一号 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十八条第二項第一号 (Article 78, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-78/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-78/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-78/par-2/item-1 - art-45/par-2: 前条第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-44/par-1 - art-45/par-2: 次条第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条の二第一項 (Article 45-2, paragraph (1)), art-45-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45-2/par-1 - art-45/par-2: 前項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-1 - art-45/par-3: 前条第四項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十四条第四項 (Article 44, paragraph (4)), art-44/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-44/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-44/par-4 - art-45/par-3: 第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-1 ## Cited by 4 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 第四十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-2 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45/par-3 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条の二第二項（関係子会社に雇用される労働者に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45-2/par-2 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条の三第一項（特定事業主に雇用される労働者に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45-3/par-1 --- ## 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 45, paragraph (1) — 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