# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第三十一条の四 (Article 31-4) - Law: 労働安全衛生法 (Industrial Safety and Health Act), 昭和四十七年法律第五十七号 - English title "Industrial Safety and Health 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: 第三十一条の四 (Article 31-4)（違法な指示の禁止） — address `art-31-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31-4 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条の四（違法な指示の禁止） — (Prohibition of Illegal Instruction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31-4 **第一項** 注文者は、その請負人（仕事が数次の請負契約によつて行われるときは、当該請負人の請負契約の後次の全ての請負契約の当事者である請負人を含む。）に対し、当該仕事に関し、その指示に従つて当該請負人に係る作業従事者が作業を行つたならば、この法律又はこれに基づく命令の規定に違反することとなる指示をしてはならない。 art-31-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31-4/par-1 An orderer must not give its contractor (including the parties to all contracts for work subsequent to the one with that contractor, if a job is carried out based on multiple levels of contracts) an instruction in connection with the relevant job that would result in a violation of the provisions of this Act or an order issued under this Act if the persons engaged in work associated with that contractor did work in accordance with the instruction. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第四十五条第十五項（労働安全衛生法の適用に関する特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/worker-dispatch-act/art-45/par-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-15 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働安全衛生法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/347AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000033), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Safety and Health Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-safety-and-health-act-20261017T185616-001, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17