# 労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律 / Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives — 第四十六条 (Article 46) - Law: 労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律 (Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives), 昭和四十一年法律第百三十二号 - English title "Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives": Ministry of Justice translation - 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: 第四十六条 (Article 46)（権限の委任） — address `art-46` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-measures-act/art-46 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/341AC0000000132/art-46 - 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. --- ### 第四十六条（権限の委任） — (Delegation of Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-measures-act/art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/341AC0000000132/art-46 **第一項** この法律に定める厚生労働大臣の権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その一部を都道府県労働局長に委任することができる。 art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-measures-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/341AC0000000132/art-46/par-1 Part of the authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in this Act may be delegated to the directors of the prefectural labor bureau pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により都道府県労働局長に委任された権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、公共職業安定所長に委任することができる。 art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-measures-act/art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/341AC0000000132/art-46/par-2 The authority delegated to the director of a prefectural labor bureau pursuant to the provisions of the immediately preceding paragraph may be delegated to the head of the public employment security office, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-46/par-2: 前項 → 労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律 第四十六条第一項 (Article 46, paragraph (1)), art-46/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-measures-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/341AC0000000132/art-46/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律 第四十六条第二項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-measures-act/art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/341AC0000000132/art-46/par-2 - 労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律 第四十七条第一項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-measures-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/341AC0000000132/art-47/par-1 - 労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律 第四十七条第二項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-measures-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/341AC0000000132/art-47/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/341AC0000000132/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3957/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-measures-act-20261005T073201-002, translated 2026-10-05 - This site's parser, version 201 — 労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05