# 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 / Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - Law: 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 (Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees), 平成二十八年法律第八十九号 - English title "Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees": 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48) — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条 art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-48 **第一項** 技能実習を行わせる者若しくは実習監理者又はこれらの役員若しくは職員（次項において「技能実習関係者」という。）は、技能実習生の旅券（入管法第二条第五号に規定する旅券をいう。第百十一条第五号において同じ。）又は在留カード（入管法第十九条の三に規定する在留カードをいう。同号において同じ。）を保管してはならない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-48/par-1 A person conducting technical intern training, training supervisor, or officer or employee thereof (referred to as "persons associated with technical intern training" in the following paragraph) must not retain the passport (meaning the passports as prescribed for in the provisions of Article 2, item (v) of the Immigration Control Act; the same applies in Article 111, item (v)) or residence card (meaning the residence cards as prescribed for in the provisions of Article 19-3 of the Immigration Control Act; the same applies in Article 111, item (v)) of a technical intern trainee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 技能実習関係者は、技能実習生の外出その他の私生活の自由を不当に制限してはならない。 art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-48/par-2 Persons associated with technical intern training must not improperly restrict the freedom of the technical intern trainees to go out, or otherwise impose unfair restrictions on their freedom in their personal lives. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: 次項 → 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第四十八条第二項 (Article 48, paragraph (2)), art-48/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-48/par-2 - art-48/par-1: 入管法第二条第五号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二条第一項第五号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-2/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-2/par-1/item-5 - art-48/par-1: 第百十一条第五号 → 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第百十一条第一項第五号 (Article 111, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-111/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-111/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-111/par-1/item-5 - art-48/par-1: 入管法第十九条の三 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の三 (Article 19-3), art-19-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-3 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第一条第一項（目的） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-1/par-1 - 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第四十六条第一項（禁止行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-46/par-1 - 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第四十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-48/par-1 - 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第百十一条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-111/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-111/par-1/item-5 - 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第百十一条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-111/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-111/par-1/item-6 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/428AC0000000089/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3612/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 210 — 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17