National Public Safety Commission

A commission placed under the Prime Minister's jurisdiction by the Police Act (警察法) (Police Act, Article 4, paragraph (1)), made up of a chairperson, who is a Minister of State (国務大臣), and five members (Article 4, paragraph (2), and Article 6, paragraph (1)). The Prime Minister appoints the members, with the consent of both Houses of the Diet, from people who have not been career public officials doing police or prosecution work in the five years before their appointment; where that consent cannot be obtained because the Diet is closed or the House of Representatives dissolved, the Prime Minister may appoint first and seek both Houses' approval afterwards (Article 7, paragraphs (1) to (3)). The National Police Agency (警察庁) is placed under it, and it administers that Agency in the matters Article 5, paragraph (4) lists (Article 5, paragraph (4), and Article 15). Where an Act, a Cabinet Order (政令) or an Order of the Cabinet Office (内閣府令) specially delegates a matter to it, it may make National Public Safety Commission Rules (国家公安委員会規則) (Article 12). Under the Secondhand Goods Business Act, it sets the standard a secondhand goods auction intermediary's methods must meet to be certified as helping prevent the sale of stolen goods and find them quickly, and it receives reports from the prefectural Public Safety Commissions (Secondhand Goods Business Act, Article 21-5, paragraph (1), and Article 27, paragraph (1)).