# 次世代育成支援対策推進法 / Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children — 第二十六条 (Article 26) - 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26) — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十六条 art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26/par-1 A person who falls under any of the following items is subject to a fine of not more than three hundred thousand yen: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第十四条第二項（第十五条の四第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定に違反した者 art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26/par-1/item-1 a person who violates the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 15-4, paragraph (2)); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第十六条第五項において準用する職業安定法第五十条第一項の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をした者 art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26/par-1/item-2 a person who fails to make a report under the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (5), or makes a false report; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 第十六条第五項において準用する職業安定法第五十条第二項の規定による立入り若しくは検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避し、又は質問に対して答弁をせず、若しくは虚偽の陳述をした者 art-26/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-26/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26/par-1/item-3 a person who refuses, obstructs, or evades an entry or inspection under the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (2) of the Employment Security Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (5), or fails to answer a question under those provisions or makes a false statement; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 第十六条第五項において準用する職業安定法第五十一条第一項の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者 art-26/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-26/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26/par-1/item-4 a person who divulges any secrets in violation of the provisions of Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (5); or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a person who divulges any secrets in violation of the provisions of Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (5). or" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb **五** 第二十条第五項の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者 art-26/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-26/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-26/par-1/item-5 a person who divulges any secrets in violation of the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (5). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a person who divulges any secrets in violation of the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (5);" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1/item-1: 第十四条第二項 → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十四条第二項 (Article 14, paragraph (2)), art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-14/par-2 - art-26/par-1/item-1: 第十五条の四第二項 → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十五条の四第二項 (Article 15-4, paragraph (2)), art-15-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-15-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-15-4/par-2 - art-26/par-1/item-2: 第十六条第五項 → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十六条第五項 (Article 16, paragraph (5)), art-16/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-16/par-5 - art-26/par-1/item-2: 職業安定法第五十条第一項 → 職業安定法 第五十条第一項 (Article 50, paragraph (1)), art-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-50/par-1 - art-26/par-1/item-3: 第十六条第五項 → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十六条第五項 (Article 16, paragraph (5)), art-16/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-16/par-5 - art-26/par-1/item-3: 職業安定法第五十条第二項 → 職業安定法 第五十条第二項 (Article 50, paragraph (2)), art-50/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-50/par-2 - art-26/par-1/item-4: 第十六条第五項 → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十六条第五項 (Article 16, paragraph (5)), art-16/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-16/par-5 - art-26/par-1/item-4: 職業安定法第五十一条第一項 → 職業安定法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51/par-1 - art-26/par-1/item-5: 第二十条第五項 → 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第二十条第五項 (Article 20, paragraph (5)), art-20/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-20/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-20/par-5 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第二十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-27/par-1 - 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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children (次世代育成支援対策推進法), Article 26, paragraph (1), item (iv) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5162/tb), 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 (次世代育成支援対策推進法), Article 26, paragraph (1), item (v) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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