# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第六十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 65) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3229-23/art-65. 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: 第六十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 65) — address `suppl-3229-23/art-65` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3229-23/art-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3229-23/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条 suppl-3229-23/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3229-23/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3229-23/art-65 **第一項** 積雪の度が著しく高い地域として厚生労働大臣が指定する地域に所在する事業場において、冬期に当該地域における事業活動の縮小を余儀なくされる事業として厚生労働大臣が指定する事業に従事する労働者であつて、屋外で作業を行う必要がある業務であつて業務の性質上冬期に労働者が従事することが困難であるものとして厚生労働大臣が指定する業務に従事するものについては、第十二条の四第四項の規定にかかわらず、当分の間、法第三十二条の四第三項の厚生労働省令で定める一日の労働時間の限度は十時間とし、一週間の労働時間の限度は五十二時間とする。 suppl-3229-23/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3229-23/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3229-23/art-65/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 12-4, paragraph (4), until otherwise provided for by law, if the worker is employed at a place of business located in a region designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as one with significantly high snow accumulation; is employed in a job designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as entailing job-related activities that must be curtailed during the winter in such a region; and is engaged in duties designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as being difficult for workers to engage in during the winter because the nature of those duties requires the worker to work out-of-doors; the reference, in Article 32-4, paragraph (3) of the Act, to a daily-working-hour limit specified by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare means 10 hours, and the reference in that paragraph to a weekly-working-hour limit so specified means 52 hours. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-3229-23/art-65/par-1: 第十二条の四第四項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第十二条の四第四項 (Article 12-4, paragraph (4)), art-12-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-12-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-12-4/par-4 - suppl-3229-23/art-65/par-1: 法第三十二条の四第三項 → 労働基準法 第三十二条の四第三項 (Article 32-4, paragraph (3)), art-32-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-32-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-32-4/par-3 --- ## 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 222 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10