# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（電気工事士等の義務） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-5 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五条（電気工事士等の義務） — Obligations of Electricians, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-5 **第一項** 電気工事士、特種電気工事資格者又は認定電気工事従事者は、一般用電気工作物に係る電気工事の作業（第三条第二項の経済産業省令で定める作業を除く。）に従事するときは電気事業法第五十六条第一項の経済産業省令で定める技術基準に、小規模事業用電気工作物に係る電気工事の作業（第三条第二項の経済産業省令で定める作業を除く。）又は自家用電気工作物に係る電気工事の作業（第三条第一項及び第三項の経済産業省令で定める作業を除く。）に従事するときは同法第三十九条第一項の主務省令で定める技術基準に適合するようにその作業をしなければならない。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-5/par-1 When engaging in electrical work operations relating to electric facilities for general use (excluding work specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry under Article 3, paragraph (2)), an electrician, qualified special electrical worker or certified electrical worker must perform that work so as to conform to the technical standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry under Article 56, paragraph (1) of the Electricity Business Act; and when engaging in electrical work operations relating to small-scale electric facilities for business use (excluding work specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry under Article 3, paragraph (2)) or electrical work operations relating to electric facilities for private use (excluding work specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry under Article 3, paragraphs (1) and (3)), the person must perform that work so as to conform to the technical standards specified by the competent ministerial order under Article 39, paragraph (1) of that Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 電気工事士、特種電気工事資格者又は認定電気工事従事者は、前項の電気工事の作業に従事するときは、電気工事士免状、特種電気工事資格者認定証又は認定電気工事従事者認定証を携帯していなければならない。 art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-5/par-2 When engaging in the electrical work operations referred to in the preceding paragraph, an electrician, qualified special electrical worker or certified electrical worker must carry an electrician license, qualified special electrical worker certificate or certified electrical worker certificate. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-5/par-1: 第三条第二項 → 電気工事士法 第三条第二項 (Article 3, paragraph (2)), art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-3/par-2 - art-5/par-1: 電気事業法第五十六条第一項 → e-Gov law 339AC0000000170, 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-5/par-1: 第三条第一項 → 電気工事士法 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-3/par-1 - art-5/par-1: 第三項 → 電気工事士法 第三条第三項 (Article 3, paragraph (3)), art-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-3/par-3 - art-5/par-1: 同法第三十九条第一項 → e-Gov law 339AC0000000170, 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-5/par-2: 前項 → 電気工事士法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-5/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 電気工事士法 第五条第二項（電気工事士等の義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-5/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T092227-002, 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