# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第五十三条の二 (Article 53-2) - 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: 第五十三条の二 (Article 53-2)（都道府県労働局長による設計審査等の実施） — address `art-53-2` - 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-53-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十三条の二（都道府県労働局長による設計審査等の実施） — Design Reviews or Post-Manufacturing Inspections by the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau caption: machine translation, not official art-53-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-2 **第一項** 都道府県労働局長は、登録を受ける者がいないとき、第四十九条の規定による設計審査等の業務の全部又は一部の休止又は廃止の届出があつたとき、前条第一項若しくは第二項の規定により登録を取り消し、又は登録設計審査等機関に対し設計審査等の業務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命じたとき、登録設計審査等機関が天災その他の事由により設計審査等の業務の全部又は一部を実施することが困難となつたときその他必要があると認めるときは、当該設計審査等の業務の全部又は一部を自ら行うことができる。 art-53-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-2/par-1 The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may directly conduct all or a part of the relevant operations for design reviews or post-manufacturing inspections if there is no person registered to do so; on having received a notification under the provisions of Article 49 of the suspension or discontinuation of all or part of the operations for design reviews or post-manufacturing inspections; on having revoked a registration or issued an order to a registered agency for design reviews and post-manufacturing inspections to suspend all or part of its operations for design reviews or post-manufacturing inspections pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article; if it has become difficult for a registered agency for design reviews and post-manufacturing inspections to carry out all or part of its operations for design reviews or post-manufacturing inspections due to a natural disaster or other cause; or on otherwise finding it to be necessary to do so. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県労働局長が前項の規定により設計審査等の業務の全部又は一部を自ら行う場合における設計審査等の業務の引継ぎその他の必要な事項については、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-53-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-2/par-2 Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare provides for the taking on of the operations for design reviews or post-manufacturing inspections and other necessary particulars if the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau directly carries out all or part of the operations for design reviews or post-manufacturing inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-53-2/par-1: 第四十九条 → 労働安全衛生法 第四十九条 (Article 49), art-49 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-49 - art-53-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十三条第一項 (Article 53, paragraph (1)), art-53/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53/par-1 - art-53-2/par-1: 第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十三条第二項 (Article 53, paragraph (2)), art-53/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53/par-2 - art-53-2/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十三条の二第一項 (Article 53-2, paragraph (1)), art-53-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-2/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第三十七条第三項（製造の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-37/par-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第四十六条第一項（登録設計審査等機関の登録） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-46/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十三条の二第二項（都道府県労働局長による設計審査等の実施） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-2/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十三条の三第一項（登録性能検査機関） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-53-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-53-3/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十四条第一項（登録個別検定機関） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-54/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第五十四条の二第一項（登録型式検定機関） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-54-2/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第七十七条第三項（登録教習機関） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-77/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-77/par-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十二条の二第一項第六号（公示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-112-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-112-2/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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-20261017T185616-003, 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