# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第一条 (Article 1)

- Law: 電気工事士法 (Electricians Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百三十九号
- English title "Electricians Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- 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: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-1
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### 第一条（目的） — Purpose
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、電気工事の作業に従事する者の資格及び義務を定め、もつて電気工事の欠陥による災害の発生の防止に寄与することを目的とする。
<sup>art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-1/par-1</sup>
The purpose of this Act is to prescribe the qualifications and obligations of persons engaged in electrical work, thereby contributing to the prevention of disasters caused by defects in electrical work.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 電気工事士法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000139/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 電気工事士法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1788), retrieved 2026-09-23
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch electricians-act-20261019T092227-001, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 204 — 電気工事士法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19