# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第七条の五 (Article 7-5) - 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: 第七条の五 (Article 7-5)（試験事務の休廃止） — address `art-7-5` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-5 - 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. --- ### 第七条の五（試験事務の休廃止） — Suspension or abolition of examination administration caption: machine translation, not official art-7-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-5 **第一項** 指定試験機関は、経済産業大臣の許可を受けなければ、試験事務の全部又は一部を休止し、又は廃止してはならない。 art-7-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-5/par-1 A designated examination body must not suspend or abolish all or part of examination administration without obtaining the permission of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 電気工事士法 第七条の十三第二項第四号（指定の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-13/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-13/par-2/item-4 - 電気工事士法 第七条の十七第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-17/par-1 - 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二号（公示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-7-18/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-18/par-1/item-2 - 電気工事士法 第十四条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/art-14-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-14-2/par-1/item-1 - 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