# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)

- 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（政令への委任） — address `suppl-4091-33/art-18`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4091-33/art-18
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4091-33/art-18
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### 第十八条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4091-33/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4091-33/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4091-33/art-18</sup>

**第一項**  附則第二条から前条までに定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関して必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。
<sup>suppl-4091-33/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4091-33/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4091-33/art-18/par-1</sup>
In addition to what is provided for in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4091-33/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 電気工事士法 附則第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15), suppl-4091-33/art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4091-33/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4091-33/art-15
- suppl-4091-33/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 電気工事士法 附則第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17), suppl-4091-33/art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4091-33/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4091-33/art-17

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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-20261019T092227-007, 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