# 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 — 第九条 (Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（基準に適合する一般事業主の認定） — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条（基準に適合する一般事業主の認定） — (Approval as General Employers that Conform to Standards) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-9 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条第一項又は第七項の規定による届出をした一般事業主からの申請に基づき、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該事業主について、女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する取組に関し、当該取組の実施の状況が優良なものであることその他の厚生労働省令で定める基準に適合するものである旨の認定を行うことができる。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-9/par-1 Based on applications from general employers who notified the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, paragraph (1) or paragraph (7), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may certify those general employers as having implemented initiatives for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life that are appropriate and conform to other standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Based on applications from general employers who notified the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, paragraph (1) or paragraph (7), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may certify those general employers as having implemented initiatives for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life that are appropriate and conform to other standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb --- ## Cites - art-9/par-1: 前条第一項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-8/par-1 - art-9/par-1: 第七項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第八条第七項 (Article 8, paragraph (7)), art-8/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-8/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-8/par-7 ## Cited by 10 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 第十一条第一項（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11/par-1 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十一条第一項第一号（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-11/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11/par-1/item-1 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十一条第一項第三号（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-11/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-11/par-1/item-3 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十五条第一項第一号（特例認定一般事業主の認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-15/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-15/par-1/item-1 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十二条第一項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-32/par-1 - 租税特別措置法 第十条の五の四第一項第二号ロ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の所得税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-10-5-4/par-1/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-10-5-4/par-1/item-2/sub-2 - 租税特別措置法 第十条の五の四第二項第二号ハ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の所得税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-10-5-4/par-2/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-10-5-4/par-2/item-2/sub-3 - 租税特別措置法 第四十二条の十二の五第一項第二号ロ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の法人税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-42-12-5/par-1/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-42-12-5/par-1/item-2/sub-2 - 租税特別措置法 第四十二条の十二の五第二項第二号ハ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の法人税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-42-12-5/par-2/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-42-12-5/par-2/item-2/sub-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life (女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律), Article 9, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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