Chapter V Miscellaneous Rules

A prefecture must pay the costs required for licenses and other regulation of Cannabis plant cultivation implemented by the prefectural governor based on this Act.

①A condition may be added to a license or authorization under this Act and it may be changed.

②The conditions in the preceding paragraph must be limited to the minimum necessary to prevent the occurrence of hygiene and health hazards due to the abuse of Cannabis and undue obligations must not be imposed upon a person who receives a license or authorization.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the prefectural governor, if finding it particularly necessary for the enforcement of this Act, may request for the necessary reports from Cannabis plant cultivators and other parties concerned, or have national narcotics agents, prefectural narcotics agents or other officials enter the cultivation areas, warehouses, laboratories and other places related to Cannabis, seeds of the Cannabis plant or narcotics, inspect the situation of the operation or the accounting books, documents and other objects, or take samples of Cannabis, seeds of the Cannabis plant or narcotics without compensation to the smallest quantity necessary for testing.

②When the national narcotics agents or prefectural narcotics agents and other officials enter for inspection or take samples pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they must carry their identification and show it at the request of the parties concerned.

③The authority provided for in paragraph (1) must not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation purposes.

The functions that are to be processed by prefectures pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 (limited to the portion pertaining to items (iii) through (v)), Articles 11 through 12-2, Article 12-8, paragraph (3), and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article are No. 1 statutory entrusted function as provided for in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947).

①The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the provisions of this Act, pursuant to Ordinances of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, may be delegated to the chief of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare.

②The authority delegated to the chief of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the preceding paragraph may be delegated, pursuant to the provisions of Ordinances of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to the chief of the Regional Branch Bureau of Health and Welfare or to the chief of regional narcotics control office.

Matters necessary to enforce this Act other than those provided for this Act are provided for by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.