# 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 — 第八条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8-2)

- 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: 第八条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8-2) — address `suppl-5071-63/art-8-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2
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### 第八条の二
<sup>suppl-5071-63/art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、特定受託事業者（特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律（令和五年法律第二十五号）第二条第一項に規定する特定受託事業者をいう。以下この条において同じ。）が受けた業務委託（同法第二条第三項に規定する業務委託をいう。）に係る業務において行われる顧客、取引の相手方、施設の利用者その他の当該業務に関係を有する者の言動であって、当該特定受託事業者に係る特定受託業務従事者（同条第二項に規定する特定受託業務従事者をいう。以下この条において同じ。）が従事する業務の性質その他の事情に照らして社会通念上許容される範囲を超えたものにより当該特定受託業務従事者の就業環境が害されることのないようにするための施策について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-1</sup>
The government is to review measures for ensuring that behavior of customers, counterparties to transactions, users of facilities, or other persons having a connection with that business, engaged in during business pertaining to a business entrustment (meaning a business entrustment prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators (Act No. 25 of 2023)) received by a specified entrusted business operator (meaning a specified entrusted business operator prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of that Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), which exceeds the scope permissible under generally accepted social norms in light of the nature of the business in which a specified person engaged in entrusted business (meaning a specified person engaged in entrusted business prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) pertaining to that specified entrusted business operator is engaged and other circumstances, does not harm the work environment of that specified person engaged in entrusted business, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the necessary measures based on the results of that review.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-1: 特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律（令和五年法律第二十五号）第二条第一項 → 特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/freelance-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000025/art-2/par-1
- suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-1: この条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 附則第八条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8-2), suppl-5071-63/art-8-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2
- suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-1: 同法第二条第三項 → 特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律 第二条第三項 (Article 2, paragraph (3)), art-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/freelance-act/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000025/art-2/par-3
- suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-1: 同条第二項 → 特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律 第二条第二項 (Article 2, paragraph (2)), art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/freelance-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000025/art-2/par-2

## Cited by

2 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/suppl-5071-63/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/suppl-5071-63/art-1/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 附則第八条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/suppl-5071-63/art-8-2/par-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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch womens-engagement-act-20261019T013854-002, translated 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
