If an Actual or Potential Serious Accident has occurred because a good or product is not Safe to Use, and there is imminent danger of instances of harm from that Actual or Potential Serious Accident increasing or imminent danger of an Actual or Potential Serious Accident with the same cause occurring (except when there are measures based on the provisions of any other law that can be taken to prevent Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasing), and the Prime Minister finds it particularly necessary to do so in order to prevent Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasing, the Prime Minister may designate a period of up to six months in which persons are prohibited or restricted from transferring or delivering the good or product (including any good or product sharing the part, manufacturing method, or other feature that caused the relevant good or product not to be Safe to Use) or using it in their services as their business or to further their business, within the necessary limits.
内閣総理大臣は、商品等が消費安全性を欠くことにより重大事故等が発生し、かつ、当該重大事故等による被害が拡大し、又は当該重大事故等とその原因を同じくする重大事故等が発生する急迫した危険がある場合（重大生命身体被害の発生又は拡大の防止を図るために実施し得る他の法律の規定に基づく措置がある場合を除く。）において、重大生命身体被害の発生又は拡大を防止するため特に必要があると認めるときは、必要な限度において、六月以内の期間を定めて、当該商品等（当該商品等が消費安全性を欠く原因となった部品、製造方法その他の事項を共通にする商品等を含む。）を事業として又は事業のために譲渡し、引き渡し、又は役務に使用することを禁止し、又は制限することができる。
If the Prime Minister finds that the prohibition or restriction referred to in the preceding paragraph is no longer necessary because it has become possible to take measures based on the provisions of any other law so as to prevent Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasing or due to other circumstances, the Prime Minister is to cancel all or part of the prohibition or restriction under that paragraph.
内閣総理大臣は、重大生命身体被害の発生又は拡大の防止を図るために他の法律の規定に基づく措置が実施し得るに至ったことその他の事由により前項の禁止又は制限の必要がなくなったと認めるときは、同項の規定による禁止又は制限の全部又は一部を解除するものとする。
Before implementing a prohibition or restriction under paragraph (1) or cancelling all or part of a prohibition or restriction under the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must hear the opinions of the Consumer Commission.
A prohibition or restriction under paragraph (1), or the cancellation of all or part of a prohibition or restriction under paragraph (2) is implemented through the issuance of public notice in the Official Gazette, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.
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)
Safe to Usemachine translation
「消費安全性」
The safety a good, product, facility or service should normally have when a consumer uses it, judged by its characteristics, the ways it can normally be expected to be used (including eaten or drunk) and other circumstances.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
Actual or Potential Serious Accident
「重大事故等」
An accident in which a consumer suffers harm to life or body that a Cabinet Order (政令) treats as serious, or a situation in which something not safe to use was used that a Cabinet Order treats as likely to cause such an accident.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (7)· applies throughout the law
Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasingmachine translation
「重大生命身体被害の発生又は拡大」
Harm from an actual or potential serious accident (重大事故等) spreading, or another serious accident with the same cause happening.
Short name set inArticle 40, paragraph (1)
Consumer Commission
消費者委員会
A commission placed in the Cabinet Office (内閣府) (Act for Establishment of the Consumer Affairs Agency and the Consumer Commission, Article 6, paragraph (1)), of no more than ten members whom the Prime Minister appoints and who exercise their authority independently (Articles 7, 9, paragraph (1), and 10, paragraph (1)). It investigates and deliberates on important matters — among them the protection and promotion of consumers' interests, the proper regulation of premiums and representations, and prices — on its own initiative, making recommendations to the Prime Minister, the Ministers concerned or the Commissioner of the Consumer Affairs Agency, and when one of them consults it; and it deals with the matters that the Acts Article 6, paragraph (2), item (iv) lists give it (Article 6, paragraph (2), items (i), (ii) and (iv)). Under the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, the Prime Minister must hear its opinion before designating what counts as a premium or a representation, or restricting or banning premiums (Articles 3 and 6); under the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, the Minister in charge must consult it before drafting certain Cabinet Orders (政令) (Article 64).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Consumer Affairs Agency and the Consumer Commission, Arts. 6, 7, 9, 10, Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, Arts. 3, 6 and Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, Art. 64 as a reference.
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.