# 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 — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（地域協議会） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（地域協議会） — (Regional Council) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56 **第一項** 地域において技能実習に関する事務を所掌する国の機関は、当該機関及び地方公共団体の機関その他の関係機関により構成される協議会（以下この条において「地域協議会」という。）を組織することができる。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-1 National government agencies with jurisdiction over the administrative affairs relating to technical intern training within a region may organize a council made up of those agencies, local government agencies, and other relevant agencies (hereinafter referred to as a "regional council" in this Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 地域協議会は、必要があると認めるときは、機構その他の地域協議会が必要と認める者をその構成員として加えることができる。 art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-2 A regional council may add the OTIT or other persons as members if the regional council finds this necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 地域協議会は、その構成員が相互の連絡を図ることにより、技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に有用な情報を共有し、その構成員の連携の緊密化を図るとともに、その地域の実情を踏まえた技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に資する取組について協議を行うものとする。 art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-3 A regional council is to share useful information for the purpose of the proper implementation of technical intern training and protection of the technical intern trainees, through mutual communication among its members, in order to work toward close cooperation among its members; and is to discuss initiatives to contribute to the proper implementation of technical intern training and protection of the technical intern trainees in light of the actual conditions of the region. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 地域協議会の事務に従事する者又は従事していた者は、正当な理由なく、当該事務に関して知ることができた秘密を漏らし、又は盗用してはならない。 art-56/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-4 Any person who performs or previously performed administrative affairs of a regional council must not divulge or misappropriate any confidential information which they came to know of in connection with the administrative affairs, without reasonable grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 前各項に定めるもののほか、地域協議会の組織及び運営に関し必要な事項は、地域協議会が定める。 art-56/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-5 Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraphs, any other necessary matters for organization and management of the regional council are established by the regional council. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Beyond what is provided for in the preceding items, any other necessary matters for organization and management of the regional council are established by the regional council." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3612/tb --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1: この条 → 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 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56 - art-56/par-5: 前各項 → 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 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-1 - art-56/par-5: 前各項 → 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 第五十六条第二項 (Article 56, paragraph (2)), art-56/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-2 - art-56/par-5: 前各項 → 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 第五十六条第三項 (Article 56, paragraph (3)), art-56/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-3 - art-56/par-5: 前各項 → 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 第五十六条第四項 (Article 56, paragraph (4)), art-56/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-4 ## Cited by 3 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 第五十六条第一項（地域協議会） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/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 第五十六条第五項（地域協議会） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-56/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-56/par-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 第百十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/technical-intern-training-act/art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-110/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees (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), Article 56, paragraph (5) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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