If the Investigation Commission finds it to be necessary to clarify the Cause or Source of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm in order to prevent instances of bodily harm from occurring or increasing (meaning to prevent instances of harm from an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm from increasing or to prevent the same or a similar type of Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm from occurring; hereinafter the same applies), it is to Investigate the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident; provided, however, that this does not apply if the necessary results have been or are expected to be obtained from an Investigation or Monitoring by Another Administrative Organ or Entity into an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm through which the Investigation Commission considers the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident can be clarified with a view to Ensuring Consumer Safety.
The Investigation Commission may take the administrative measures set forth below to the extent that doing so is necessary to allow it to Investigate the Cause or Source of an actual or potential accident:
collecting reports from persons with a connection to an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm (hereinafter referred to as "Persons Involved in the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm"), which includes any person found to have a connection to the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident (referred to in the next item and Article 30 as a "Person Linked to the Cause or Source" of the actual or potential accident) and any person that attempts to save a person's life on the occasion of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm;
entering the scene of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, the office of a Person Linked to the Cause or Source thereof, or any other place it finds to be necessary; examining the good or product, books, documents, or other materials relevant to an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm (hereinafter referred to as a "Relevant Material"); and interrogating any Person Involved in the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm;
生命身体事故等の現場、原因関係者の事務所その他の必要と認める場所に立ち入って、商品等、帳簿、書類その他の生命身体事故等に関係のある物件（以下「関係物件」という。）を検査し、又は生命身体事故等関係者に質問すること。
asking a Person Involved in an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm to appear, and interrogating them;
生命身体事故等関係者に出頭を求めて質問すること。
asking the owner, holder, or custodian of a Relevant Material to produce it, or taking custody of a material so produced;
関係物件の所有者、所持者若しくは保管者に対しその提出を求め、又は提出物件を留め置くこと。
ordering the owner, holder, or custodian of a Relevant Material to keep it safe or prohibiting such a person from relocating it; and
関係物件の所有者、所持者若しくは保管者に対しその保全を命じ、又はその移動を禁止すること。
prohibiting entry into the site of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm to persons other than those entering on official duty and those whose entry the Investigation Commission finds unproblematic.
If the Investigation Commission finds it necessary to do so, it may have the chairperson, a member, or an expert member take the administrative measures set forth in one of the items of the preceding paragraph.
A person taking an administrative measure set forth in paragraph (2), item (ii) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry identification and show it to the Person Involved in an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, upon request.
前項の規定により第二項第二号に掲げる処分をする者は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、かつ、生命身体事故等関係者の請求があるときは、これを提示しなければならない。
The authority to take an administrative measure under paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) must not be construed as having been granted for the purpose of a criminal investigation.
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Ensuring Consumer Safety
「消費者安全の確保」
Preventing consumers from suffering harm in their lives as consumers and keeping them safe.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
good or product
「商品等」
Goods and products a business (事業者) supplies as its business, and objects, facilities and structures it provides or lets people use for its business or uses in providing a service as or for its business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)
Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm
「生命身体事故等」
An accident in which a consumer suffers harm to life or body to the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, or a situation likely to cause such an accident, as listed in Article 2, paragraph (5), items (i) and (ii).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
Investigation Commission
「調査委員会」
The Consumer Safety Investigation Commission (消費者安全調査委員会), set up within the Consumer Affairs Agency (消費者庁).
Short name set inArticle 15, paragraph (1)
Cause or Source
「事故等原因」
Collectively, the cause of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等) and the cause of the harm it does, which the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission investigates under Article 16, paragraph (1), item (i).
Short name set inArticle 16, paragraph (1), item (i)
Investigation into the Cause or Source
「事故等原因調査」
An investigation by the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission to find the cause of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等) and of the harm it does, other than aircraft, railway and marine accidents as defined in the Act for Establishment of the Japan Transport Safety Board.
Short name set inArticle 16, paragraph (1), item (i)
Investigation or Monitoring by Another Administrative Organ or Entitymachine translation
「他の行政機関等による調査等」
An investigation or inspection of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等) by another administrative body (other than the Japan Transport Safety Board), or by a local government under an Act or an order made under one, including one carried out by anyone else to whom an Act gives all or part of that work.
Short name set inArticle 16, paragraph (1), item (ii)
Person Linked to the Cause or Sourcemachine translation
「原因関係者」
In Article 23, paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii) and Article 30, any person found to be connected with the cause of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm or of the harm it did.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (2), item (i)· applies only in this provision and in Article 23, paragraph (2), item (ii); and Article 30
Person Involved in an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harmmachine translation
「生命身体事故等関係者」
Anyone connected with an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等), including people connected with its cause and people who worked to save lives at it.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (2), item (i)
Relevant Material
「関係物件」
Goods, products, books, documents and other things connected with an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等), which the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission may inspect.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (2), item (ii)