# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第二十二条 (Article 22)

- 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（業務を行い得ない事件） — address `art-22`
- 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-22
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### 第二十二条（業務を行い得ない事件） — Cases in Which Business May Not Be Conducted
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<sup>art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22</sup>

**第一項**  社会保険労務士は、国又は地方公共団体の公務員として職務上取り扱つた事件及び仲裁手続により仲裁人として取り扱つた事件については、その業務を行つてはならない。
<sup>art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-1</sup>
A labor and social security attorney must not conduct business with regard to a case that the labor and social security attorney has handled in the course of duties as a public officer of the State or a local government, or a case that the labor and social security attorney has handled as an arbitrator in arbitration proceedings.
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**第二項**  特定社会保険労務士は、次に掲げる事件については、紛争解決手続代理業務を行つてはならない。ただし、第三号に掲げる事件については、受任している事件の依頼者が同意した場合は、この限りでない。
<sup>art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-2</sup>
A specified labor and social security attorney must not conduct dispute resolution procedure representation business with regard to the cases listed in the following items; provided, however, that with regard to the case listed in item (iii), this does not apply if the client of the case that the labor and social security attorney has accepted consents:
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  **一**  紛争解決手続代理業務に関するものとして、相手方の協議を受けて賛助し、又はその依頼を承諾した事件
  <sup>art-22/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-2/item-1</sup>
  a case, as one relating to dispute resolution procedure representation business, in which the labor and social security attorney has received consultation from the other party and has assisted that party, or has accepted that party's request;
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  **二**  紛争解決手続代理業務に関するものとして相手方の協議を受けた事件で、その協議の程度及び方法が信頼関係に基づくと認められるもの
  <sup>art-22/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-2/item-2</sup>
  a case in which the labor and social security attorney has received consultation from the other party as one relating to dispute resolution procedure representation business, where the extent and method of that consultation are found to be based on a relationship of trust;
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  **三**  紛争解決手続代理業務に関するものとして受任している事件の相手方からの依頼による他の事件
  <sup>art-22/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-2/item-3</sup>
  another case commissioned by the other party of a case that the labor and social security attorney has accepted as pertaining to dispute resolution procedure representation business;
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  **四**  開業社会保険労務士の使用人である社会保険労務士又は社会保険労務士法人の社員若しくは使用人である社会保険労務士としてその業務に従事していた期間内に、その開業社会保険労務士又は社会保険労務士法人が、紛争解決手続代理業務に関するものとして、相手方の協議を受けて賛助し、又はその依頼を承諾した事件であつて、自らこれに関与したもの
  <sup>art-22/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-2/item-4</sup>
  a case in which the labor and social security attorney was personally involved and in which, during the period when the labor and social security attorney was engaged in business as a labor and social security attorney who was an employee of a self-employed labor and social security attorney or who was a member or employee of a labor and social security attorney corporation, that self-employed labor and social security attorney or labor and social security attorney corporation, as one relating to dispute resolution procedure representation business, received consultation from the other party and assisted that party, or accepted that party's request;
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  **五**  開業社会保険労務士の使用人である社会保険労務士又は社会保険労務士法人の社員若しくは使用人である社会保険労務士としてその業務に従事していた期間内に、その開業社会保険労務士又は社会保険労務士法人が紛争解決手続代理業務に関するものとして相手方の協議を受けた事件で、その協議の程度及び方法が信頼関係に基づくと認められるものであつて、自らこれに関与したもの
  <sup>art-22/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-2/item-5</sup>
  a case in which the labor and social security attorney was personally involved and in which, during the period when the labor and social security attorney was engaged in business as a labor and social security attorney who was an employee of a self-employed labor and social security attorney or who was a member or employee of a labor and social security attorney corporation, that self-employed labor and social security attorney or labor and social security attorney corporation received consultation from the other party as one relating to dispute resolution procedure representation business, where the extent and method of that consultation are found to be based on a relationship of trust.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-22/par-2: 第三号 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十二条第二項第三号 (Article 22, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-22/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-2/item-3

## Cited by

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

- 社会保険労務士法 第二十二条第二項（業務を行い得ない事件） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-22/par-2
- 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の十七第一項第四号（特定の事件についての業務の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-17/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-17/par-1/item-4
- 社会保険労務士法 附則第二条第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/suppl-4171-62/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/suppl-4171-62/art-2/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
