# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第二十五条の八 (Article 25-8)

- 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: 第二十五条の八 (Article 25-8)（社員の資格） — address `art-25-8`
- 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-25-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-8
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### 第二十五条の八（社員の資格） — Qualifications of Members
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-25-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-8</sup>

**第一項**  社会保険労務士法人の社員は、社会保険労務士でなければならない。
<sup>art-25-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-8/par-1</sup>
A member of a labor and social security attorney corporation must be a labor and social security attorney.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  次に掲げる者は、社員となることができない。
<sup>art-25-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-8/par-2</sup>
The following persons may not become members:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  第二十五条の二又は第二十五条の三の規定により社会保険労務士の業務の停止の処分を受け、当該業務の停止の期間を経過しない者
  <sup>art-25-8/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-8/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-8/par-2/item-1</sup>
  a person who has been subject to a disposition of suspension of business as a labor and social security attorney under Article 25-2 or Article 25-3 and for whom the period of that suspension of business has not elapsed;
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **二**  第二十五条の二十四第一項の規定により社会保険労務士法人が解散又は業務の停止を命ぜられた場合において、その処分の日以前三十日内にその社員であつた者でその処分の日から三年（業務の停止を命ぜられた場合にあつては、当該業務の停止の期間）を経過しないもの
  <sup>art-25-8/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-8/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-8/par-2/item-2</sup>
  in the case where a labor and social security attorney corporation has been ordered to dissolve or to suspend business under Article 25-24, paragraph (1), a person who was a member of that labor and social security attorney corporation within 30 days on or before the date of that disposition, and for whom three years (in the case where suspension of business was ordered, the period of that suspension of business) have not elapsed from the date of that disposition.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-25-8/par-2/item-1: 第二十五条の二 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二 (Article 25-2), art-25-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-2
- art-25-8/par-2/item-1: 第二十五条の三 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の三 (Article 25-3), art-25-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-3
- art-25-8/par-2/item-2: 第二十五条の二十四第一項 → 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十四第一項 (Article 25-24, paragraph (1)), art-25-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-24/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-20261018T205451-007, 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
