# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第四十四条 (Article 44) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-44. 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: 第四十四条 (Article 44) — address `art-44` - 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-44 - 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. --- ### 第四十四条 art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-44 **第一項** 遺族補償を受けるべき同順位の者が二人以上ある場合には、遺族補償は、その人数によつて等分するものとする。 art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-44/par-1 When there are two or more persons of the same priority rank who should be given compensation for bereaved family, the compensation for bereaved family shall be equally divided by the number of such persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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