If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the relevant violation is punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than three hundred thousand yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。
the person has failed to comply with an order for work, an order of cooperation or an order of custody issued by the prefectural governor (including the mayor of a municipality to whom part of the affairs under the governor's authority has been delegated pursuant to the provisions of Article 71, paragraph (2)) under Article 71, paragraph (1);
the person has failed to comply with an order of custody issued by the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ (including an official to whom authority has been delegated pursuant to the provisions of Article 23-6, paragraph (1), Article 27, paragraph (1) or Article 28-5, paragraph (1)) under Article 78, paragraph (1).
第七十八条第一項の規定による指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長（第二十三条の六第一項、第二十七条第一項又は第二十八条の五第一項の規定により権限の委任を受けた職員を含む。）の保管命令に従わなかつたとき。
designated administrative organs
「指定行政機関」
The national administrative organs the Prime Minister designates from among the Cabinet Office (内閣府), the Imperial Household Agency, the Digital Agency, the Disaster Management Agency, the ministries, commissions and agencies, and the councils, facilities, special organs and other bodies set up under them.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
designated local administrative organs
「指定地方行政機関」
The local branch offices of designated administrative organs, and other local administrative organs of the State, that the Prime Minister designates.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies throughout the law
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
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.