# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第十条 (Article 10)
- 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
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- Provision: 第十条 (Article 10)（試験の実施） — address `art-10`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第十条（試験の実施） — Conduct of the Examination
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art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10
**第一項** 社会保険労務士試験は、毎年一回以上、厚生労働大臣が行なう。
art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10/par-1
The labor and social security attorney examination is conducted by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare at least once every year.
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**第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、社会保険労務士試験をつかさどらせるため、労働及び社会保険に関し学識経験を有する者のうちから社会保険労務士試験委員を任命するものとする。ただし、次条第一項の規定により全国社会保険労務士会連合会に同項の試験事務を行わせることとした場合は、この限りでない。
art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10/par-2
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to appoint labor and social security attorney examination examiners, from among persons with academic knowledge and experience concerning labor and social insurance, to administer the labor and social security attorney examination; provided, however, that this does not apply in the case where it has been decided, pursuant to paragraph (1) of the following Article, to have the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorney's Associations conduct the examination administration set out in that paragraph.
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## Cites
- art-10/par-2: 次条第一項 → 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/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-10-2/par-1
## Cited by
1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.
- 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-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