# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第七条の四 (Article 7-4) - 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: 第七条の四 (Article 7-4)（試験事務規程） — address `art-7-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-4 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七条の四（試験事務規程） — Examination administration rules caption: machine translation, not official art-7-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-4 **第一項** 指定試験機関は、試験事務の実施に関する規程（以下「試験事務規程」という。）を定め、経済産業大臣の認可を受けなければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする。 art-7-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-4/par-1 A designated examination body must establish rules concerning the conduct of examination administration (hereinafter referred to as "examination administration rules") and obtain the approval of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. The same applies when it intends to change them. machine translation, not official **第二項** 試験事務規程で定めるべき事項は、経済産業省令で定める。 art-7-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-4/par-2 Matters to be provided for in the examination administration rules are specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. machine translation, not official **第三項** 経済産業大臣は、第一項の認可をした試験事務規程が試験事務の公正な実施上不適当となつたと認めるときは、指定試験機関に対し、試験事務規程を変更すべきことを命ずることができる。 art-7-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-4/par-3 If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds that examination administration rules approved under paragraph (1) have become inappropriate for the fair conduct of examination administration, the Minister may order the designated examination body to change the examination administration rules. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-7-4/par-3: 第一項 → 電気工事士法 第七条の四第一項 (Article 7-4, paragraph (1)), art-7-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-4/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 電気工事士法 第七条の四第三項（試験事務規程） — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-4/par-3 - 電気工事士法 第七条の十三第二項第二号（指定の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-13/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-13/par-2/item-2 - 電気工事士法 第七条の十三第二項第三号（指定の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-13/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-13/par-2/item-3 - 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-20261019T092227-003, 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