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Law Concerning the Improvement of Employment Management, Etc. of Part-Time Workers (Part-Time Work Law)

CHAPTER V. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Research, Etc. Concerning the Improvement of Employment Management, Etc.

Article 31. The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare shall endeavor to promote investigation, research and the preparation of materials concerning matters regarding the Improvement of Employment of Management, Etc. in accordance with the expansion of the range of occupations of Part-Time Workers, etc. so that Part-Time Workers can display their abilities effectively.

Exclusion from Application

Article 32. This Law shall not apply to national public employees, local public employees, and seafarers as specified in paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the Seafarers Employment Security Law (Law No. 130 of 1948).

Penal Provisions

Article 33. A person who falls under either of the following numbered items shall be liable for a fine not exceeding 200,000 yen:

	(1)	a person who fails to submit a report stipulated in Article 19, or makes a false report; or
	(2)	a person who fails to submit a report stipulated in paragraph 1 of Article 26, submits a false report, or refuses, obstructs or evades the entry or inspection stipulated in the same paragraph.

Article 34. In case a representative of a juridical person, or an agent, employee or other worker of a juridical person or a natural person has committed a violation of the preceding Article with respect to the business of said juridical person or said natural person, the person who committed the violation shall be punished, and said juridical person or other party shall also be sentenced to the punishment under the same Article.

Article 35. In case the Part-Time Work Support Center has failed to obtain the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare required under the provisions of Article 18, the officer who committed the violation shall be liable for a fine not exceeding 200,000 yen.

SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS (SUMMARY)

Date of Enforcement

Article 1. This Law shall come into force within a period not exceeding six months following the date of promulgation as provided by Cabinet Order (note: December 1, 1993). However, the provisions of Chapter IV and Articles 33 through 35, the provisions of Articles 3 and 4 of the supplementary provisions (limited to the revising provisions of numbered item 3 of Article 4 of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Establishment Law [Law No. 162 of 1949] and the revising provisions adding one numbered item after numbered item 4 of Article 5 of the same Law) shall come into force from April 1, 1994.

Studies

Article 2. The government, if it deems it necessary in light of the state of enforcement of this Law after three years have elapsed from the date when it comes into force, shall carry out studies regarding the provisions of this Law, and shall take any necessary measures based on the findings thereof.

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