# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第十五条 (Article 15)

- 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（不正行為の指示等の禁止） — address `art-15`
- 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-15
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-15
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### 第十五条（不正行為の指示等の禁止） — Prohibition of Instructions for Wrongful Acts, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  社会保険労務士は、不正に労働社会保険諸法令に基づく保険給付を受けること、不正に労働社会保険諸法令に基づく保険料の賦課又は徴収を免れることその他労働社会保険諸法令に違反する行為について指示をし、相談に応じ、その他これらに類する行為をしてはならない。
<sup>art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-15/par-1</sup>
A labor and social security attorney must not give instructions on, respond to consultations on, or otherwise engage in similar acts concerning improperly receiving insurance benefits under the labor and social insurance laws and regulations, improperly evading the imposition or collection of insurance premiums under the labor and social insurance laws and regulations, or other acts in violation of the labor and social insurance laws and regulations.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二第一項（不正行為の指示等を行つた場合の懲戒） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-2/par-1
- 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十第一項（社会保険労務士の義務等に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-20/par-1
- 社会保険労務士法 第三十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-32/par-1
- 社会保険労務士法 附則第二十条第一項（社会保険労務士法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-4121-16/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-4121-16/art-20/par-1
- 社会保険労務士法 附則第十二条第一項（社会保険労務士法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-4131-35/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-4131-35/art-12/par-1
- 社会保険労務士法 附則第四条第一項（社会保険労務士法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-4151-30/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-4151-30/art-4/par-1

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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
- 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
