第五条
A person who intends to become a type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator must, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, obtain a license (hereinafter in this Chapter simply referred to as a "license") from the governor of the prefecture to which the cultivation area belongs (hereinafter referred to as the "prefectural governor").
第一種大麻草採取栽培者になろうとする者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、栽培地の属する都道府県の知事（以下「都道府県知事」という。）の免許（以下この章において単に「免許」という。）を受けなければならない。
A license is not granted to persons falling under any of the following items:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者には、免許を与えない。
a person whose license has been revoked pursuant to Article 12-6, paragraph (1) and for whom three years have not elapsed from the date of revocation;
a narcotics addict (meaning a narcotics addict prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxv) of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act);
麻薬中毒者（麻薬及び向精神薬取締法第二条第一項第二十五号に規定する麻薬中毒者をいう。）
a person sentenced to imprisonment or other punishment more severe than that;
拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられた者
a minor;
未成年者
a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as being unable to properly perform the duties of a type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator due to a mental or physical disorder;
心身の故障により第一種大麻草採取栽培者の業務を適正に行うことができない者として厚生労働省令で定めるもの
an organized crime group member prescribed in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (Act No. 77 of 1991), or a person for whom five years have not elapsed since the day on which the person ceased to be an organized crime group member prescribed in that item (referred to as an "organized crime group member, etc." in item (viii));
暴力団員による不当な行為の防止等に関する法律（平成三年法律第七十七号）第二条第六号に規定する暴力団員又は同号に規定する暴力団員でなくなつた日から五年を経過しない者（第八号において「暴力団員等」という。）
a corporation or organization any of whose officers who conduct its business falls under any of the preceding items;
法人又は団体であつて、その業務を行う役員のうちに前各号のいずれかに該当する者があるもの
a person whose business activities are controlled by an organized crime group member, etc.
暴力団員等がその事業活動を支配する者
第六条
The type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator register is to be kept in the prefectures and the information concerning licenses registered in it.
都道府県に第一種大麻草採取栽培者名簿を備え、免許に関する事項を登録する。
The information to be registered pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is provided for by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
前項の規定により登録すべき事項は、厚生労働省令でこれを定める。
A type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator must, if a change occurs in the registered information in the type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator register, notify the prefectural governor to that effect within 15 days.
第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、第一種大麻草採取栽培者名簿の登録事項に変更を生じたときは、十五日以内に、その旨を都道府県知事に届け出なければならない。
第七条
When the prefectural governor grants a license, the prefectural governor is to register it in the type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator register and issue a license certificate.
A license certificate must not be transferred or be lent to others.
免許証は、これを譲り渡し、又は貸与してはならない。
If a type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator damages or loses the license certificate, the cultivator must, within 15 days, state the reason, in case of damage, attach that license certificate and submit an application for reissuance of the license certificate to the prefectural governor.
第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、免許証を毀損し、又は亡失したときは、十五日以内に、その事由を記載し、かつ、毀損した場合には当該免許証を添えて、都道府県知事に免許証の再交付を申請しなければならない。
If a type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator, after having the license certificate reissued pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, finds the lost license certificate, the cultivator must, within 15 days, return that license certificate to the prefectural governor.
第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、前項の規定により免許証の再交付を受けた後、亡失した免許証を発見したときは、十五日以内に、当該免許証を都道府県知事に返納しなければならない。
A person who has received a license must, when the validity period of that license has expired or when that license has been revoked pursuant to Article 12-6, paragraph (1), return the license certificate to the prefectural governor within 15 days.
第八条
第九条
A type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator (including a person whose license's validity period has expired) must, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, report the following matters to the prefectural governor for each year in the validity period of the license, by January 31 of the year following that year:
第一種大麻草採取栽培者（免許の有効期間が満了した者を含む。）は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その免許の有効期間における各年について、その翌年の一月三十一日までに、次に掲げる事項を都道府県知事に報告しなければならない。
the planted area of Cannabis plants;
大麻草の作付面積
quantity of fiber extracted from Cannabis plants in the year in question;
当該年中に採取した大麻草の繊維の数量
the name and quantity of the Cannabis and of the seeds of the Cannabis plant that have not been treated by the method prescribed in Article 18 (hereinafter referred to as "seeds not treated against germination") possessed at the beginning of the year concerned;
the name and quantity of the Cannabis and seeds not treated against germination harvested or received during the year concerned;
the name and quantity of the Cannabis and seeds not treated against germination possessed on the last day of the year concerned;
other particulars prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
その他厚生労働省令で定める事項
第十条
A type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator must keep an accounting book at the cultivator's office and enter the following particulars in it:
第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、その事務所に帳簿を備え、これに次に掲げる事項を記載しなければならない。
the name and quantity of the Cannabis and seeds not treated against germination harvested, transferred, received or disposed of, and the date thereof;
the name (or, for a juridical person, the title) and address of the other party to a transfer or receipt;
譲渡し又は譲受けの相手方の氏名又は名称及び住所
the name and quantity of the Cannabis, seeds not treated against germination and narcotics (limited to narcotics manufactured in the course of the processing prescribed in Article 12-4, paragraph (1) that are listed in Appended Table I, items 42 and 43 of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act; the same applies hereinafter) notified under Article 12-2, paragraph (1);
the name and quantity of the seeds not treated against germination that have been sown, and the date thereof;
播種した発芽不能未処理種子の品名及び数量並びにその年月日
other particulars prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
その他厚生労働省令で定める事項
A type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator must preserve the accounting book under the preceding paragraph for two years from the last entry date.
第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、前項の帳簿を、最終の記載の日から二年間、保存しなければならない。
第十一条
A type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator must not take Cannabis owned by the cultivator out of the cultivation area; provided, however, that this does not apply when the cultivator has obtained the permission of the prefectural governor or has made the notification under paragraph (2) of the following Article.
第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、その所有する大麻をその栽培地外へ持ち出してはならない。ただし、都道府県知事の許可を受けたとき、又は次条第二項の規定による届出をしたときは、この限りでない。
第十二条
When a type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator intends to dispose of Cannabis owned by the cultivator in the cultivation area, the cultivator must notify the prefectural governor of the name and quantity of the Cannabis to be disposed of, and dispose of that Cannabis by the method prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、その栽培地において、その所有する大麻を廃棄しようとするときは、廃棄する大麻の品名及び数量について都道府県知事に届け出て、厚生労働省令で定める方法により当該大麻を廃棄しなければならない。
When a type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator intends to dispose of Cannabis owned by the cultivator outside the cultivation area, the cultivator must notify the prefectural governor of the name and quantity of the Cannabis to be disposed of and the method of disposal, and dispose of that Cannabis in the presence of the relevant official.
第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、その栽培地外において、その所有する大麻を廃棄しようとするときは、廃棄する大麻の品名及び数量並びに廃棄の方法について都道府県知事に届け出て、当該職員の立会いの下に当該大麻を廃棄しなければならない。
cannabis plantmachine translation
「大麻草」
The plant Cannabis sativa L. (カンナビス・サティバ・リンネ).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
Cannabismachine translation
「大麻」
The cannabis plant (大麻草) other than its seeds and mature stalks, and products made from it other than products that no longer have the form of the cannabis plant.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
type 1 cannabis plant harvesting cultivatormachine translation
「第一種大麻草採取栽培者」
A person who, under a license (免許) from the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) under Article 5, paragraph (1), grows cannabis plants to harvest raw materials for products made from them, limited to products of the seeds or mature stalks and others a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, including products that no longer have the plant's form.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
licensemachine translation
「免許」
In Chapter II, the license from the governor of the prefecture where the cultivation site lies that a person needs to become a type 1 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator.
Short name set inArticle 5, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
prefectural governormachine translation
「都道府県知事」
The governor (知事) of the prefecture in which the cultivation site lies.
Short name set inArticle 5, paragraph (1)
organized crime group member, etc.machine translation
「暴力団員等」
An organized crime group member as defined in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members, or a person who ceased to be one less than five years ago.
Short name set inArticle 5, paragraph (2), item (vi)· applies only in this provision and in Article 5, paragraph (2), item (viii)
seeds not treated against germinationmachine translation
「発芽不能未処理種子」
Seeds of the cannabis plant that have not been treated, by the method Article 18 requires and a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, so that they cannot germinate.
Short name set inArticle 9, paragraph (1), item (iii)
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.