# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第十四条の十二 (Article 14-12)

- Law: 社会保険労務士法 (Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance), 昭和四十三年法律第八十九号
- English title "Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- 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: 第十四条の十二 (Article 14-12)（社会保険労務士証票等の返還） — address `art-14-12`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-14-12
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-14-12
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### 第十四条の十二（社会保険労務士証票等の返還） — Return of Labor and Social Security Attorney Identification Card, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-14-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-14-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-14-12</sup>

**第一項**  社会保険労務士の登録が抹消されたときは、その者、その法定代理人又はその相続人は、遅滞なく、社会保険労務士証票又は特定社会保険労務士証票を連合会に返還しなければならない。社会保険労務士が第二十五条の二又は第二十五条の三の規定により業務の停止の処分を受けた場合においても、また同様とする。
<sup>art-14-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-14-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-14-12/par-1</sup>
When the registration of a labor and social security attorney has been cancelled, that person, the person's legal representative or the person's heir must, without delay, return the labor and social security attorney identification card or the specified labor and social security attorney identification card to the Federation. The same applies where a labor and social security attorney has been subject to a disposition of suspension of business under Article 25-2 or Article 25-3.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  連合会は、前項後段の規定に該当する社会保険労務士が、当該処分に係る業務を行うことができることとなつたときは、その申請により、社会保険労務士証票又は特定社会保険労務士証票をその者に再交付しなければならない。
<sup>art-14-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-14-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-14-12/par-2</sup>
When a labor and social security attorney falling under the second sentence of the preceding paragraph has become able to conduct the business to which the disposition relates, the Federation must, upon the labor and social security attorney's application, reissue the labor and social security attorney identification card or the specified labor and social security attorney identification card to that person.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-14-12/par-1: 第二十五条の二 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二 (Article 25-2), art-25-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-2
- art-14-12/par-1: 第二十五条の三 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の三 (Article 25-3), art-25-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-3
- art-14-12/par-2: 前項 → 社会保険労務士法 第十四条の十二第一項 (Article 14-12, paragraph (1)), art-14-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-14-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-14-12/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 社会保険労務士法 第十四条の十二第二項（社会保険労務士証票等の返還） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-14-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-14-12/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 社会保険労務士法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/343AC1000000089/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 社会保険労務士法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/903), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-and-social-security-attorney-act-20261018T204223-005, translated 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch labor-and-social-security-attorney-act-20261018T204223-005, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 社会保険労務士法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18
