# 社会保険労務士法 / Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance — 第十三条の四 (Article 13-4)

- 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: 第十三条の四 (Article 13-4) — address `art-13-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-13-4
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### 第十三条の四
<sup>art-13-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-13-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-13-4</sup>

**第一項**  厚生労働大臣は、連合会に紛争解決手続代理業務試験の実施に関する事務（合格の決定に関する事務を除く。以下「代理業務試験事務」という。）を行わせることができる。
<sup>art-13-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-13-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-13-4/par-1</sup>
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may have the Federation conduct affairs relating to the implementation of the dispute resolution procedure representation business examination (excluding affairs relating to the decision on passing; hereinafter referred to as "representation business examination administration").
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 社会保険労務士法 第十三条の三第二項（紛争解決手続代理業務試験） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-13-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-13-3/par-2

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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
