# 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 — 第五十五条 (Article 55) - 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55) — address `art-55` - 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-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条 art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-55 **第一項** 前条第一項の場合において、当該事業主が当該年度において対象障害者である労働者を雇用しており、かつ、同条第二項に規定する調整基礎額に当該年度に属する各月ごとの初日における当該事業主の雇用する対象障害者である労働者の数の合計数を乗じて得た額が同条第一項の規定により算定した額に達しないときは、当該事業主が納付すべき納付金の額は、同項の規定にかかわらず、その差額（第七十四条の二第四項及び第五項において「算定額」という。）に相当する金額とする。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-55/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, in a case as referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article, if the employer employs a qualifying disabled worker during the relevant fiscal year, and if, when the base amount for adjustment provided for in paragraph (2) of that Article is multiplied by the aggregate of the numbers of qualifying disabled workers the employer employs as of the first day of each month in that fiscal year, the product arrived at does not reach the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article, the amount of the levy that the employer is required to pay is the amount equivalent to the difference between them (referred to as the "calculated levy amount" in Article 74-2, paragraph (4) and paragraph (5)). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第一項の場合において、当該事業主が当該年度において対象障害者である労働者を雇用しており、かつ、同条第二項に規定する調整基礎額に当該年度に属する各月ごとの初日における当該事業主の雇用する対象障害者である労働者の数の合計数を乗じて得た額が同条第一項の規定により算定した額以上であるときは、当該事業主については、同項の規定にかかわらず、納付金は、徴収しない。 art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-55/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, in a case as referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article, if the employer employs qualifying disabled workers during the relevant fiscal year, and if, when the base amount for adjustment provided for in paragraph (2) of that Article is multiplied by the aggregate of the numbers of qualifying disabled workers that the employer employs as of the first day of each month in that fiscal year, the product is at least the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article, the levy is not collected from that employer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第四十五条の二第四項から第六項までの規定は前二項の対象障害者である労働者の数の算定について、第四十八条第八項の規定は親事業主、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準用する。 art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-55/par-3 The provisions of Article 45-2, paragraphs (4) through (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of the number of qualifying disabled workers referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (8) apply mutatis mutandis to the application of the preceding two paragraphs to a parent employer, related parent employer, or specified cooperative or association. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55/par-1: 前条第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-54/par-1 - art-55/par-1: 同条第二項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第五十四条第二項 (Article 54, paragraph (2)), art-54/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-54/par-2 - art-55/par-1: 第七十四条の二第四項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十四条の二第四項 (Article 74-2, paragraph (4)), art-74-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-74-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-74-2/par-4 - art-55/par-1: 第五項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十四条の二第五項 (Article 74-2, paragraph (5)), art-74-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-74-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-74-2/par-5 - art-55/par-2: 前条第一項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-54/par-1 - art-55/par-2: 同条第二項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第五十四条第二項 (Article 54, paragraph (2)), art-54/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-54/par-2 - art-55/par-3: 第四十五条の二第四項から第六項まで → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条の二第四項 (Article 45-2, paragraph (4)), art-45-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45-2/par-4 - art-55/par-3: 第四十五条の二第四項から第六項まで → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条の二第五項 (Article 45-2, paragraph (5)), art-45-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45-2/par-5 - art-55/par-3: 第四十五条の二第四項から第六項まで → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十五条の二第六項 (Article 45-2, paragraph (6)), art-45-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-45-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-45-2/par-6 - art-55/par-3: 前二項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-55/par-1 - art-55/par-3: 前二項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第五十五条第二項 (Article 55, paragraph (2)), art-55/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-55/par-2 - art-55/par-3: 第四十八条第八項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十八条第八項 (Article 48, paragraph (8)), 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 ## 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 第五十五条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-55/par-3 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十一条第一項（納付金関係業務に係る規定の特定短時間労働者についての適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-71/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十四条の二第四項（在宅就業障害者特例調整金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-74-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-74-2/par-4 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十四条の二第五項（在宅就業障害者特例調整金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-74-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-74-2/par-5 --- ## 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