# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第四十三条 (Article 43) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-43. 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: 第四十三条 (Article 43) — address `art-43` - 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-43 - e-Gov law ID: 322M40000100023 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第四十三条 art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-43 **第一項** 前条の規定に該当する者がない場合においては、遺族補償を受けるべき者は、労働者の子、父母、孫及び祖父母で前条第二項の規定に該当しないもの並びに労働者の兄弟姉妹とし、その順位は、子、父母、孫、祖父母、兄弟姉妹の順序により、兄弟姉妹については、労働者の死亡当時その収入によつて生計を維持していた者又は労働者の死亡当時その者と生計を一にしていた者を先にする。 art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-43/par-1 When a worker has no one who falls under the provisions of the preceding Article, the person who should be given compensation for bereaved family shall be the worker's children, parents, grandchildren and grandparents who do not fall under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and the worker's brothers and sisters and the priority is in the order of children, parent, grandchildren, grandparents and bothers and sisters, and as for brothers and sisters, those who made a living from the worker's income, or who lived on common living expenses at the time when the worker died shall have priority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 労働者が遺言又は使用者に対してした予告で前項に規定する者のうち特定の者を指定した場合においては、前項の規定にかかわらず、遺族補償を受けるべき者は、その指定した者とする。 art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-43/par-2 When a worker has designated a specific person among those who fall under the provisions set forth in the preceding paragraph in a will or in an advance notice to the employer, the person who should be given compensation for survivor shall be the designated one notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-43/par-1: 前条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-42 - art-43/par-1: 前条第二項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第四十二条第二項 (Article 42, paragraph (2)), art-42/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-42/par-2 - art-43/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第四十三条第一項 (Article 43, paragraph (1)), art-43/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-43/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第四十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-43/par-2 - 労働基準法施行規則 第四十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-45/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 227 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10