# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第十二条 (Article 12) - 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: 第十二条 (Article 12)（受験手数料） — address `art-12` - 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-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条（受験手数料） — Examination Fee caption: machine translation, not official art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12 **第一項** 社会保険労務士試験を受けようとする者は、政令で定めるところにより、受験手数料を国（連合会が試験事務を行う場合にあつては、連合会）に納めなければならない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12/par-1 A person who intends to take the labor and social security attorney examination must pay the examination fee to the State (to the Federation, in the case where the Federation conducts examination administration), as specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により連合会に納められた受験手数料は、連合会の収入とする。 art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12/par-2 The examination fee paid to the Federation pursuant to the preceding paragraph constitutes revenue of the Federation. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の規定により納められた受験手数料は、社会保険労務士試験を受けなかつた場合においても、返還しない。 art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12/par-3 The examination fee paid pursuant to paragraph (1) is not to be refunded even if the person did not take the labor and social security attorney examination. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-12/par-2: 前項 → 社会保険労務士法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12/par-1 - art-12/par-3: 第一項 → 社会保険労務士法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第十二条第二項（受験手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12/par-2 - 社会保険労務士法 第十二条第三項（受験手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-12/par-3 - 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 --- ## 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