# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第九十六条の三 (Article 96-3) - 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: 第九十六条の三 (Article 96-3)（機構に対する命令） — address `art-96-3` - 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-96-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-96-3 - 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. --- ### 第九十六条の三（機構に対する命令） — (Giving Orders to JOHAS) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-96-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-96-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-96-3 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条第一項に規定する調査に係る業務及び同条第二項に規定する立入検査の業務の適正な実施を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、機構に対し、これらの業務に関し必要な命令をすることができる。 art-96-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-96-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-96-3/par-1 On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure the proper implementation of operations related to an investigation as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and an on-site inspection as prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may give the necessary orders to JOHAS related to these operations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-96-3/par-1: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十六条の二第一項 (Article 96-2, paragraph (1)), art-96-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-96-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-96-2/par-1 - art-96-3/par-1: 同条第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十六条の二第二項 (Article 96-2, paragraph (2)), art-96-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-96-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-96-2/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第百二十三条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-123/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-123/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17