# 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 / Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — 第十条 (Article 10)

- Law: 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 (Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life), 平成二十七年法律第六十四号
- English title "Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life": 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: 第十条 (Article 10)（認定一般事業主の表示等） — address `art-10`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10
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### 第十条（認定一般事業主の表示等） — (A Mark Indicating a Certified General Employer)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10</sup>

  **第一項**  前条の認定を受けた一般事業主（以下「認定一般事業主」という。）は、商品、役務の提供の用に供する物、商品又は役務の広告又は取引に用いる書類若しくは通信その他の厚生労働省令で定めるもの（次項及び第十四条第一項において「商品等」という。）に厚生労働大臣の定める表示を付することができる。
  <sup>art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10/par-1</sup>
  General employers who obtained the approval referred to in the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "certified general employers") may affix a mark specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to goods, items for the provision of services, advertisements of goods or services or documents used for transactions, or communication and other goods and services specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as the "goods, etc.," in the following paragraph and Article 14, paragraph (1)).
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  何人も、前項の規定による場合を除くほか、商品等に同項の表示又はこれと紛らわしい表示を付してはならない。
  <sup>art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10/par-2</sup>
  No person must affix a mark prescribed in the preceding paragraph or any other misleading mark to the goods, etc., in addition to the cases under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-10/par-1: 前条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-9
- art-10/par-1: 次項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10/par-2
- art-10/par-1: 第十四条第一項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-14/par-1
- art-10/par-2: 前項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10/par-1

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十条第一項（認定一般事業主の表示等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10/par-1
- 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十条第二項（認定一般事業主の表示等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10/par-2
- 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十四条第二項（特例認定一般事業主の表示等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-14/par-2
- 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十七条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37/par-1/item-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/427AC0000000064/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 201 — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
