①A designated examination body must keep a record book and enter in it the matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in relation to examination administration.

②The record book referred to in the preceding paragraph must be preserved as provided by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

①The examination on the date of a hearing relating to a disposition under Article 4, paragraph (6), Article 4-2, paragraph (6), Article 7-8 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 7-9, paragraph (4)) or Article 7-13 must be conducted in public.

②If an interested person in a disposition has requested, pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Procedure Act (Act No. 88 of 1993), to participate in the procedures relating to the hearing, the presiding officer of a hearing under Article 7-8 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 7-9, paragraph (4)) or Article 7-13 must grant permission.

A person who is dissatisfied with a disposition relating to examination administration conducted by a designated examination body, or with its failure to act, may file a request for review with the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. In this case, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry is deemed to be the superior administrative agency of the designated examination body for the purpose of the application of Article 25, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 46, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 49, paragraph (3) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014).

①The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry is to conduct all or part of examination administration in person when a designated examination body has suspended all or part of examination administration with the permission under Article 7-5, when the Minister has ordered a designated examination body to suspend all or part of examination administration pursuant to Article 7-13, paragraph (2), or when it has become difficult for a designated examination body to conduct all or part of examination administration because of a natural disaster or other cause and the Minister finds it necessary.

②Where the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry conducts all or part of examination administration in person pursuant to the preceding paragraph, where a designated examination body abolishes all or part of examination administration with the permission under Article 7-5, or where the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry has revoked the designation of a designated examination body pursuant to Article 7-13, the handover of examination administration and other necessary matters are specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must give public notice in the Official Gazette in the following cases:

①A prefectural governor may, to the extent necessary for the enforcement of this Act and as provided by Cabinet Order, have an electrician, qualified special electrical worker or certified electrical worker make a report on the business of electrical work.

②The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may, to the extent necessary for the enforcement of this Act, have a designated examination body make a report on the status of its business or accounting.

①A person who intends to take an electrician examination, or to receive the issuance, reissuance or rewriting of a qualified special electrical worker certificate or a certified electrical worker certificate, must pay a fee in the amount specified by Cabinet Order, taking actual costs into account.

②The fees under the preceding paragraph are to be the revenue of the national treasury with regard to those paid by persons who intend to take an electrician examination conducted by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry or persons who intend to receive the issuance, reissuance or rewriting of a qualified special electrical worker certificate or a certified electrical worker certificate, and the revenue of the designated examination body in question with regard to those paid by persons who intend to take an electrician examination for which a designated examination body conducts the examination administration.

Matters that fall within the authority of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry under the provisions of this Act may be handled by the Director of an Industrial Safety and Inspection Department, as specified by Cabinet Order.

A person who violates the provisions of Article 7-10, paragraph (1) is punished by imprisonment for one year or less or a fine of 300,000 yen or less.

If there is a violation of an order suspending examination administration under Article 7-13, paragraph (2), the officer or employee of the designated examination body who committed the violation is punished by imprisonment for one year or less or a fine of 300,000 yen or less.

A person who violates the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1), (2) or (3) is punished by imprisonment for three months or less or a fine of 30,000 yen or less.

In any of the following cases, the officer or employee of the designated examination body who committed the violation is punished by a fine of 200,000 yen or less:

A person who fails to make a report under the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1), or makes a false report, is punished by a fine of 10,000 yen or less.

A person who falls under any of the following is subject to a civil fine of 10,000 yen or less: