# 電気工事士法 / Electricians Act — 第七条 (Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（指定試験機関の指定等） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（指定試験機関の指定等） — Designation of Designated Examination Body, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、その指定する者（以下「指定試験機関」という。）に、電気工事士試験の実施に関する事務（以下「試験事務」という。）を行わせることができる。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7/par-1 The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may have a person the Minister designates (hereinafter referred to as a "designated examination body") conduct the administration relating to the conduct of electrician examinations (hereinafter referred to as "examination administration"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の指定は、経済産業省令で定めるところにより、試験事務を行おうとする者の申請により行う。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7/par-2 The designation under the preceding paragraph is made upon application by a person who intends to conduct examination administration, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. machine translation, not official **第三項** 経済産業大臣は、第一項の指定をしたときは、試験事務を行わないものとする。 art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7/par-3 When the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry has made a designation under paragraph (1), the Minister is not to conduct examination administration. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-7/par-2: 前項 → 電気工事士法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7/par-1 - art-7/par-3: 第一項 → 電気工事士法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 電気工事士法 第七条第二項（指定試験機関の指定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7/par-2 - 電気工事士法 第七条第三項（指定試験機関の指定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7/par-3 - 電気工事士法 第七条の二第一項（欠格条項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-2/par-1 - 電気工事士法 第七条の三第一項（指定の基準） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-3/par-1 - 電気工事士法 第七条の十八第一項第一号（公示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/art-7-18/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/art-7-18/par-1/item-1 - 電気工事士法 附則第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/electricians-act/suppl-3351-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000139/suppl-3351-139/par-1 --- ## 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