# 次世代育成支援対策推進法 / Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — 第二十三条 (Article 23) - Law: 次世代育成支援対策推進法 (Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children), 平成十五年法律第百二十号 - English title "Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（権限の委任） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（権限の委任） — (Delegation of Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-23 **第一項** 第十二条から第十六条までに規定する厚生労働大臣の権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その一部を都道府県労働局長に委任することができる。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-23/par-1 Part of the authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Articles 12 through 16 may be delegated to the director general of the prefectural labor bureau pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-12 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十二条の二 (Article 12-2), art-12-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-12-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-12-2 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十三条 (Article 13), art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-13 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-14 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十五条 (Article 15), art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-15 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2), art-15-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-15-2 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十五条の三 (Article 15-3), art-15-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-15-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-15-3 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十五条の四 (Article 15-4), art-15-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-15-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-15-4 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十五条の五 (Article 15-5), art-15-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-15-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-15-5 - art-23/par-1: 第十二条から第十六条まで → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十六条 (Article 16), art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-16 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/suppl-4151-120/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/suppl-4151-120/art-1/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 次世代育成支援対策推進法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000120/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 201 — 次世代育成支援対策推進法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19