# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第四十条 (Article 40) - Law: 職業安定法 (Employment Security Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号 - English title "Employment Security Act": 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: 第四十条 (Article 40)（報酬の供与の禁止） — address `art-40` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条（報酬の供与の禁止） — (Prohibition against Giving Compensation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-40 **第一項** 労働者の募集を行う者は、その被用者で当該労働者の募集に従事するもの又は募集受託者に対し、賃金、給料その他これらに準ずるものを支払う場合又は第三十六条第二項の認可に係る報酬を与える場合を除き、報酬を与えてはならない。 art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-40/par-1 A person recruiting workers must not compensate an employee who is engaged in recruiting workers or a commissioned recruiter, except when paying wages, salaries, or the equivalent or when providing compensation to which the approval referred to in Article 36, paragraph (2) pertains. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-40/par-1: 第三十六条第二項 → 職業安定法 第三十六条第二項 (Article 36, paragraph (2)), art-36/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-36/par-2 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十六条第五項（委託募集の特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-5 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十六条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-36/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-36/par-1/item-3 - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十六条第五項（委託募集の特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-16/par-5 - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第二十五条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-25/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-25/par-1/item-3 - 職業安定法 第六十五条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-65/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-65/par-1/item-6 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第五十三条第五項（育児休業等取得者の業務を処理するために必要な労働者の募集の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-53/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-53/par-5 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第六十三条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-63/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-63/par-1/item-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 職業安定法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000141/20260401_506AC0000000050), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17