# 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 — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（特定身体障害者） — address `art-48` - 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-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（特定身体障害者） — (Persons with Prescribed Physical Disabilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48 **第一項** 国及び地方公共団体の任命権者は、特定職種（労働能力はあるが、別表に掲げる障害の程度が重いため通常の職業に就くことが特に困難である身体障害者の能力にも適合すると認められる職種で政令で定めるものをいう。以下この条において同じ。）の職員（短時間勤務職員を除く。以下この項、第三項及び第四項において同じ。）の採用について、当該機関に勤務する特定身体障害者（身体障害者のうち特定職種ごとに政令で定める者に該当する者をいう。以下この条において同じ。）である当該職種の職員の数が、当該機関に勤務する当該職種の職員の総数に、職種に応じて政令で定める特定身体障害者雇用率を乗じて得た数（その数に一人未満の端数があるときは、その端数は、切り捨てる。）未満である場合には、特定身体障害者である当該職種の職員の数がその特定身体障害者雇用率を乗じて得た数以上となるようにするため、政令で定めるところにより、特定身体障害者の採用に関する計画を作成しなければならない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-1 With regard to the hiring of employees (other than part-time workers; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph, paragraph (3), and paragraph (4)) in a specified occupation (meaning an occupation provided for by Cabinet Order that is found to be suited to the abilities of a person with a disability who is able to work but for whom the severity of an impairment as set forth in the Appended Table makes it especially difficult to work a standard job; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), if the number of employees in such an occupation who work for the relevant organization and who constitute persons with prescribed physical disabilities (meaning persons with physical disabilities who constitute the persons prescribed by Cabinet Order for each specified occupation; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) is less than the number arrived at when the total number of employees in that occupation who work for the relevant organization is multiplied by the mandatory proportion of workers with prescribed physical disabilities that Cabinet Order prescribes for the occupation (any part of the number so calculated representing less than one full person is disregarded), the national or local government's appointer, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, must draw up a plan for hiring persons with the prescribed physical disabilities in order to bring the number of employees with prescribed physical disabilities in that occupation up to at least the number arrived at when the total number of employees in that occupation is multiplied by the aforementioned proportion. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三十九条の規定は、前項の計画について準用する。 art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-2 The provisions of Article 39 apply mutatis mutandis to the plan referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 承認省庁又は認定地方機関に係る第一項の規定の適用については、当該外局等又は当該その他機関に勤務する職員は、当該承認省庁又は当該認定地方機関のみに勤務する職員とみなす。 art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-3 To apply the provisions of paragraph (1) to an approved ministry or agency, employees who work at the relevant external bureaus and other organizations are deemed to be employees who work solely at the approved ministry or agency; to apply those provisions to a certified local organization, employees who work at the relevant other organization are deemed to be employees who work solely at the certified local organization. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 当該機関に勤務する職員が特定身体障害者であるかどうかの確認は、厚生労働省令で定める書類により行うものとする。 art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-4 Whether an employee working at the organization in question is a person with a prescribed physical disability is to be confirmed using the documents provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 厚生労働大臣は、必要があると認めるときは、国及び地方公共団体の任命権者に対して、前項の規定による確認の適正な実施に関し、勧告をすることができる。 art-48/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-5 On finding it to be necessary to do so, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may give the national or local government's appointer recommendations as to the proper implementation of the confirmation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 事業主は、特定職種の労働者（短時間労働者を除く。以下この項、次項及び第九項において同じ。）の雇入れについては、その雇用する特定身体障害者である当該職種の労働者の数が、その雇用する当該職種の労働者の総数に、職種に応じて厚生労働省令で定める特定身体障害者雇用率を乗じて得た数（その数に一人未満の端数があるときは、その端数は、切り捨てる。）以上であるように努めなければならない。 art-48/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-6 In hiring workers (excluding part-time workers; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph, the following paragraph, and paragraph (9)) in a specified occupation, an employer must endeavor to ensure that the number of workers with prescribed physical disabilities they employ in that occupation is at least the number arrived at when the total number of workers they employ in that occupation is multiplied by the mandatory proportion of workers with prescribed physical disabilities prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (any part of the number so calculated representing less than one full person is disregarded) for that occupation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第七項** 厚生労働大臣は、特定身体障害者の雇用を促進するため特に必要があると認める場合には、その雇用する特定身体障害者である特定職種の労働者の数が前項の規定により算定した数未満であり、かつ、その数を増加するのに著しい困難を伴わないと認められる事業主（その雇用する当該職種の労働者の数が職種に応じて厚生労働省令で定める数以上であるものに限る。）に対して、特定身体障害者である当該職種の労働者の数が同項の規定により算定した数以上となるようにするため、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、特定身体障害者の雇入れに関する計画の作成を命ずることができる。 art-48/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-7 On finding it to be especially necessary to do so in order to facilitate the employment of persons with prescribed physical disabilities, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order an employer that employs fewer workers with prescribed physical disabilities in a specified occupation than the number calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and that it is found would not have any extreme difficulty in increasing that number (limited to one employing a number of workers in the occupation in question that is at least the number that Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes for that occupation) to draw up a plan, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for hiring persons with prescribed physical disabilities in order to ensure that the number of workers with prescribed physical disabilities in the occupation is at least the number calculated pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第八項** 親事業主、関係親事業主又は特定組合等に係る前二項の規定の適用については、当該子会社及び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、当該関係子会社が雇用する労働者は当該関係親事業主のみが雇用する労働者と、当該特定事業主が雇用する労働者は当該特定組合等のみが雇用する労働者とみなす。 art-48/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-8 To apply the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs to a parent employer, related parent employer, or specified cooperative or association, the workers that the subsidiaries and the related companies employ are deemed to be workers employed solely by the parent employer, the workers that the related subsidiaries employ are deemed to be workers employed solely by the related parent employer, and the workers that a specified employer employs are deemed to be workers employed solely by the relevant specified cooperative or association. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第九項** 当該事業主が雇用する労働者が特定身体障害者であるかどうかの確認は、厚生労働省令で定める書類により行うものとする。 art-48/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-9 Whether a worker that the employer in question employs is a person with a prescribed physical disability is to be confirmed using the documents provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第十項** 第四十六条第四項及び第五項の規定は、第七項の計画について準用する。 art-48/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-48/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-48/par-10 The provisions of Article 46, paragraph (4) and paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to a plan as referred to in paragraph (7). 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