# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第五十九条の三 (Article 59-3)

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- 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: 第五十九条の三 (Article 59-3) — address `art-59-3`
- 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-59-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-3
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### 第五十九条の三
<sup>art-59-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-3</sup>

**第一項**  届出等について、社会保険労務士又は社会保険労務士法人（以下この条において「社会保険労務士等」という。）が、第五十七条第一項（同項第三号に該当する場合に限る。）若しくは第二項又は情報通信技術活用法第六条第一項の規定により、同項に規定する電子情報処理組織を使用して社会保険労務士法（昭和四十三年法律第八十九号）第二条第一項第一号の二の規定に基づき当該届出等を使用者に代わつて行う場合には、当該社会保険労務士等が当該使用者の職務を代行する契約を締結していることにつき証明することができる電磁的記録を当該届出等と併せて送信しなければならない。
<sup>art-59-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-3/par-1</sup>
With respect to notifications, etc., in the case where a labor and social security attorney or a labor and social security attorney corporation (hereinafter referred to as a "labor and social security attorney, etc." in this Article) makes the notifications, etc. on behalf of an employer based on the provisions of item (i)-2 of paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance (Act No. 89 of 1968), using the electronic data processing system provided in paragraph (1) of Article 6 of the Information and Communications Technology Utilization Act pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 57 (limited to the case falling under item (iii) of that paragraph) or paragraph (2) of that Article or paragraph (1) of Article 6 of the Information and Communications Technology Utilization Act, the labor and social security attorney, etc. must transmit, together with those notifications, etc., an electronic or magnetic record capable of certifying that the labor and social security attorney, etc. has concluded a contract to perform the duties of the employer on the employer's behalf.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-59-3/par-1: この条 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十九条の三 (Article 59-3), art-59-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-3
- art-59-3/par-1: 第五十七条第一項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-57/par-1
- art-59-3/par-1: 同項第三号 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十七条第一項第三号 (Article 57, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-57/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-57/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-57/par-1/item-3
- art-59-3/par-1: 第二項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第五十七条第二項 (Article 57, paragraph (2)), art-57/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-57/par-2
- art-59-3/par-1: 情報通信技術活用法第六条第一項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000151, 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — not held in this collection
- art-59-3/par-1: 社会保険労務士法（昭和四十三年法律第八十九号）第二条第一項第一号の二 → 社会保険労務士法 第二条第一項第一号の二 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i-2)), art-2/par-1/item-1-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-2/par-1/item-1-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-2/par-1/item-1-2

## Cited by

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

- 労働基準法施行規則 第五十九条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-2/par-3
- 労働基準法施行規則 第五十九条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-59-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-59-3/par-1

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## 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-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-20261009T171955-001, translated 2026-10-10
- 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
