Industrial Safety and Health Act

On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to bring this Act into effect, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may give the necessary orders to the designated examination board for the supervision of its exam administration.

It is prohibited for a designated examination board to suspend or discontinue all or part of exam administration without obtaining the permission of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

If a designated examination board has come to fall under item (iii) or item (v) of paragraph (2) of Article 75-3, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must rescind its designation.

If a designated examination board has come to fall under any of the following items, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may revoke its designation or order a total or partial suspension of exam administration for a fixed period:

it falls under item (vi) of paragraph (2) of Article 75-3;

it has violated an order issued under the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 75-4, paragraph (4) of Article 75-5, paragraph (3) of Article 75-6 or Article 75-9;

it has violated the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) of Article 75-5, Article 75-7 or the preceding Article;

it has conducted exam administration without conforming to the exam administration rules approved pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 75-6;

it has violated the conditions referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 110.

If the designated examination board has suspended all or part of exam administration with permission from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the provisions of Article 75-10; if the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has ordered the designated examination board to suspend all or part of exam administration pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; or if the designated examination board has had trouble carrying out all or part of the exam administration due to a natural disaster or other such cause, on finding that it is necessary to do so, the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau is directly to take on all or part of exam administration.

Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare provides for the undertaking of exam administration and other necessary particulars for if the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau directly carries out exam administration pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph; the designated examination board discontinues all or part of its exam administration with the permission of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the provisions of Article 75-10; or the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare rescinds the designation of the designated examination board pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article.

A skill training course as referred to in Article 14 or paragraph (1) of Article 61 (hereinafter referred to as a "skill training course") consists of theoretical instructions or practical training for each classification set forth in Appended Table 18.

A person providing a skill training course must issue a skill training course completion certificate, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to persons who have completed that course.

Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes the qualifications for receiving skill training, enrollment procedures, and other necessary particulars concerning the implementation of skill training courses.

No person may issue a skill training course completion certificate or a document confusingly similar to it, except when issuing a skill training course completion certificate pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article.

If the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau finds it necessary to do so in order to ensure the proper implementation of skill training courses, the Director may order a person who, in violation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, has wrongfully issued a skill training course completion certificate or has issued a document confusingly similar to it, to take steps to recover that skill training course completion certificate or confusingly similar document or to take other necessary measures.

Registration under the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of Article 61 or paragraph (3) of Article 75 (hereinafter referred to as the "registration" in this Article) must be made, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for each classification prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, at the application of a person that seeks to conduct the skill training course or the practical training.

The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau must register a person that has applied for registration pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "registration applicant" in this paragraph) if the registration applicant satisfies all the following requirements:

for a skill training course or practical training as set forth in the left-hand column of Appended Table 19, the registration applicant will conduct the skill training course or the practical training using instruments and other equipment shown in the corresponding right-hand column of the Table;

for a skill training course, the subjects set forth in each item of Appended Table 20 are covered by a trainer who has knowledge and experience that comply with one of the requirements shown in the corresponding right hand column of the Table, and there is at least one such trainer at each place of business; for practical training, the subjects set forth in the left-hand column of Appended Table 21 are covered by a trainer who has knowledge and experience that comply with one of the requirements shown in the corresponding right column of the Table, and there are at least two such trainers at each place of business;

there is a person who supervises the skill training course or the practical training (in case of the practical training, this supervisor must, in accordance with the practical training shown in the left-hand column of Appended Table 22, have knowledge and experience that comply with one of the requirements shown in the right-hand column of the Table);

for practical training, at least 95% of persons who have completed an equivalent training course conducted by the registration applicant in the period within six months before the date of application, and that have taken the paper test or the practical test in the corresponding license examination, have passed the paper test or practical test.

If the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau has revoked the registration of a registered training institution that fails to comply with an order under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article pursuant to the provisions of item (v) of paragraph (1) of Article 53 as applied mutatis mutandis in the preceding paragraph, the Director may, in accordance with standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, designate a period not exceeding ten years during which the person subject to that disposition may not be registered under the provisions of paragraph (1).

If not renewed for every five- to ten- year period specified by Cabinet Order, a registration ceases to be effective upon the expiration of that period.

The provisions of paragraph (2) of this Article and paragraphs (2) and (4) of Article 46 apply mutatis mutandis to the renewal referred to in the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "registration" in the portion of paragraph (2) of Article 46 other than the items is deemed to be replaced with "registration under paragraph (1) of Article 77 (hereinafter the same applies in this Article)", and the phrase "register of the registered agency for design reviews and post-manufacturing inspections" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "register of the registered training institution".

Unless there is a justifiable reason for it not to do so, a registered training institution must prepare a plan for each business year for conducting skill training courses or training, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and must conduct skill training courses or practical training based on the plan.

A registered training institution must conduct skill training courses or practical training fairly, and in accordance with paragraph (5) of Article 75 or paragraph (3) of Article 76.