# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第七条の十七 (Article 7-17) - 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: 第七条の十七 (Article 7-17)（経済産業大臣による試験事務の実施等） — address `art-7-17` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-17 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七条の十七（経済産業大臣による試験事務の実施等） — Conduct of Examination Administration by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry caption: machine translation, not official art-7-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-17 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、指定試験機関が第七条の五の許可を受けて試験事務の全部若しくは一部を休止したとき、第七条の十三第二項の規定により指定試験機関に対し試験事務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命じたとき、又は指定試験機関が天災その他の事由により試験事務の全部若しくは一部を実施することが困難となつた場合において必要があると認めるときは、試験事務の全部又は一部を自ら行うものとする。 art-7-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-17/par-1 The 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. machine translation, not official **第二項** 経済産業大臣が前項の規定により試験事務の全部又は一部を自ら行う場合、指定試験機関が第七条の五の許可を受けて試験事務の全部若しくは一部を廃止する場合又は第七条の十三の規定により経済産業大臣が指定試験機関の指定を取り消した場合における試験事務の引継ぎその他の必要な事項については、経済産業省令で定める。 art-7-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-17/par-2 Where 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. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-7-17/par-1: 第七条の五 → 電気工事士法 第七条の五 (Article 7-5), art-7-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-5 - art-7-17/par-1: 第七条の十三第二項 → 電気工事士法 第七条の十三第二項 (Article 7-13, paragraph (2)), art-7-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-13/par-2 - art-7-17/par-2: 前項 → 電気工事士法 第七条の十七第一項 (Article 7-17, paragraph (1)), art-7-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-17/par-1 - art-7-17/par-2: 第七条の五 → 電気工事士法 第七条の五 (Article 7-5), art-7-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-5 - art-7-17/par-2: 第七条の十三 → 電気工事士法 第七条の十三 (Article 7-13), art-7-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-13 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 電気工事士法 第七条の十七第二項（経済産業大臣による試験事務の実施等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-17/par-2 - 電気工事士法 第七条の十八第一項第四号（公示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-18/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-18/par-1/item-4 - 電気工事士法 附則第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-3351-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-3351-139/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T092227-004, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch electricians-act-20261019T092227-004, 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