# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 労働基準法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年厚生省令第二十三号 - English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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 (Article 16) — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十六条 art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16 **第一項** 法第三十六条第一項の規定による届出は、様式第九号（同条第五項に規定する事項に関する定めをする場合にあつては、様式第九号の二）により、所轄労働基準監督署長にしなければならない。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-1 The notification under the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act must be made to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned using Form No. 9 (or, in the case where provisions are established concerning the matters prescribed in paragraph (5) of that Article, Form No. 9-2). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、法第三十六条第十一項に規定する業務についての同条第一項の規定による届出は、様式第九号の三により、所轄労働基準監督署長にしなければならない。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the notification under the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act with regard to the work prescribed in paragraph (11) of that Article must be made to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned using Form No. 9-3. machine translation, not official **第三項** 法第三十六条第一項の協定（労使委員会の決議及び労働時間等設定改善委員会の決議を含む。以下この項において同じ。）を更新しようとするときは、使用者は、その旨の協定を所轄労働基準監督署長に届け出ることによつて、前二項の届出に代えることができる。 art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-3 When an employer intends to renew an agreement under Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act (including a resolution by a labor-management committee and a resolution by a committee on the improvement of working time arrangements; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the employer may, by notifying the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned of an agreement to that effect, substitute that for the notification under the preceding two paragraphs. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 法第三十六条第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/par-1 - art-16/par-1: 様式第九号 → 労働基準法施行規則 様式第九号 (Form No. 9), form-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/form-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/form-9 - art-16/par-1: 同条第五項 → 労働基準法 第三十六条第五項 (Article 36, paragraph (5)), art-36/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/par-5 - art-16/par-1: 様式第九号の二 → 労働基準法施行規則 様式第九号の二 (Form No. 9-2), form-9-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/form-9-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/form-9-2 - art-16/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-1 - art-16/par-2: 法第三十六条第十一項 → 労働基準法 第三十六条第十一項 (Article 36, paragraph (11)), art-36/par-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/par-11 - art-16/par-2: 同条第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/par-1 - art-16/par-2: 様式第九号の三 → 労働基準法施行規則 様式第九号の三 (Form No. 9-3), form-9-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/form-9-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/form-9-3 - art-16/par-3: 法第三十六条第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/par-1 - art-16/par-3: この項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第十六条第三項 (Article 16, paragraph (3)), art-16/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-3 - art-16/par-3: 前二項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-1 - art-16/par-3: 前二項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-2 - 労働基準法施行規則 第十六条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-16/par-3 - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第七十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3229-23/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3229-23/art-70/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第七十条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3229-23/art-70/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3229-23/art-70/par-3 - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第二条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3579-25/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3579-25/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322M40000100023/20260401_508M60000100057), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-003, translated 2026-09-11 - This site's parser, version 222 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10