# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)

- 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4241-47/art-1`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4241-47/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4241-47/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
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<sup>suppl-4241-47/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4241-47/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4241-47/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から起算して三月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4241-47/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4241-47/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4241-47/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 3 months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items.
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  **一**  第七条第一項（両議院の同意を得ることに係る部分に限る。）並びに附則第二条第三項（両議院の同意を得ることに係る部分に限る。）、第五条、第六条、第十四条第一項、第三十四条及び第八十七条の規定　公布の日
  <sup>suppl-4241-47/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4241-47/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4241-47/art-1/par-1/item-1</sup>
  the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to obtaining the consent of both Houses), and Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the part pertaining to obtaining the consent of both Houses), Article 5, Article 6, Article 14, paragraph (1), Article 34 and Article 87 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4241-47/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第八十七条 → 電気工事士法 附則第八十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 87), suppl-4241-47/art-87 — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4241-47/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4241-47/art-87

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 電気工事士法 附則第八十六条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/electricians-act/suppl-4241-47/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-4241-47/art-86/par-1

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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-20261019T092227-008, 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
