# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第十六条の三 (Article 16-3)

- 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: 第十六条の三 (Article 16-3)（研修） — address `art-16-3`
- 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-16-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-16-3
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### 第十六条の三（研修） — Training
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-16-3</sup>

**第一項**  社会保険労務士は、社会保険労務士会及び連合会が行う研修を受け、その資質の向上を図るように努めなければならない。
<sup>art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-16-3/par-1</sup>
A labor and social security attorney must endeavor to receive training conducted by labor and social security attorney's associations and the Federation and thereby to improve the labor and social security attorney's qualities.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  事業主は、前項に規定する研修について、勤務社会保険労務士から受講の申出があつたときは、その事業の運営に支障のない範囲内で受講の機会を与えるように努めなければならない。
<sup>art-16-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-16-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-16-3/par-2</sup>
When an employed labor and social security attorney has applied to attend the training prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the business owner must endeavor to give the labor and social security attorney an opportunity to attend, to the extent that doing so does not interfere with the operation of the business.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-16-3/par-2: 前項 → 社会保険労務士法 第十六条の三第一項 (Article 16-3, paragraph (1)), art-16-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-16-3/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 社会保険労務士法 第十六条の三第二項（研修） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-16-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-16-3/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-20261018T205451-005, 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
