# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（帳簿の備付け及び保存） — address `art-19` - 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-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（帳簿の備付け及び保存） — Keeping and Retention of Books caption: machine translation, not official art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-19 **第一項** 開業社会保険労務士は、その業務に関する帳簿を備え、これに事件の名称、依頼を受けた年月日、受けた報酬の額、依頼者の住所及び氏名又は名称その他厚生労働大臣が定める事項を記載しなければならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-19/par-1 A self-employed labor and social security attorney must keep books relating to the labor and social security attorney's business and enter in them the name of the case, the date on which the request was received, the amount of remuneration received, the address and name or title of the client, and other particulars specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 開業社会保険労務士は、前項の帳簿をその関係書類とともに、帳簿閉鎖の時から二年間保存しなければならない。開業社会保険労務士でなくなつたときも、同様とする。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-19/par-2 A self-employed labor and social security attorney must retain the books referred to in the preceding paragraph, together with the related documents, for two years from the time the books are closed. The same applies when the labor and social security attorney has ceased to be a self-employed labor and social security attorney. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-19/par-2: 前項 → 社会保険労務士法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-19/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第十九条第二項（帳簿の備付け及び保存） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-19/par-2 - 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 第三十三条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-33/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-33/par-1/item-1 - 社会保険労務士法 附則第二条第一項（帳簿の保存に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-4051-61/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-4051-61/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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