# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第四条の三 (Article 4-3)

- 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: 第四条の三 (Article 4-3)（第一種電気工事士の講習） — address `art-4-3`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-4-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-4-3
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### 第四条の三（第一種電気工事士の講習） — Courses for Class 1 Electricians
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-4-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-4-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-4-3</sup>

**第一項**  第一種電気工事士は、経済産業省令で定めるやむを得ない事由がある場合を除き、第一種電気工事士免状の交付を受けた日から五年以内に、経済産業省令で定めるところにより、経済産業大臣の指定する者が行う自家用電気工作物の保安に関する講習を受けなければならない。当該講習を受けた日以降についても、同様とする。
<sup>art-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-4-3/par-1</sup>
A Class 1 electrician must, except where there are unavoidable grounds specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, receive, within five years from the date of receiving a Class 1 electrician license, a course on the safety of electric facilities for private use given by a person designated by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The same applies on or after the date on which the person received that course.
<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-20261019T092227-002, 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
