# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第十条の二 (Article 10-2)

- Law: 社会保険労務士法 (Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance), 昭和四十三年法律第八十九号
- English title "Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance": 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: 第十条の二 (Article 10-2) — address `art-10-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10-2
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### 第十条の二
<sup>art-10-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10-2</sup>

**第一項**  厚生労働大臣は、全国社会保険労務士会連合会（以下「連合会」という。）に社会保険労務士試験の実施に関する事務（合格の決定に関する事務を除く。以下「試験事務」という。）を行わせることができる。
<sup>art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10-2/par-1</sup>
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may have the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations (hereinafter referred to as the "Federation") conduct affairs relating to the implementation of the labor and social security attorney examination (excluding affairs relating to the decision on passing; hereinafter referred to as "examination administration").
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定により連合会に試験事務を行わせるときは、その旨を官報で公示するものとし、この場合には、厚生労働大臣は、試験事務を行わないものとする。
<sup>art-10-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10-2/par-2</sup>
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has the Federation conduct examination administration pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Minister is to give public notice to that effect in the Official Gazette, and in that case, the Minister is not to conduct examination administration.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-10-2/par-2: 前項 → 社会保険労務士法 第十条の二第一項 (Article 10-2, paragraph (1)), art-10-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10-2/par-1

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 社会保険労務士法 第十条第二項（試験の実施） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10/par-2
- 社会保険労務士法 第十条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10-2/par-2
- 社会保険労務士法 第十三条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-13-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-13-5/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 社会保険労務士法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/343AC1000000089/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 社会保険労務士法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/903), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch labor-and-social-security-attorney-act-20261018T205451-003, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 社会保険労務士法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18
