Article 63

①A physician who has diagnosed a patient with food poisoning, etc., or has examined the corpse of a patient with food poisoning, etc. must immediately notify the director of the nearest public health center to that effect.

②When the director of a public health center has received a notification referred to in the preceding paragraph, or finds that patients with food poisoning, etc. have been found, the director must promptly make a report to a prefectural governor, etc., and conduct an investigation, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

③When a prefectural governor, etc. has received a report from the director of a public health center pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and finds that the number of patients with food poisoning, etc. who have been found is equal to or higher than the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, it is likely that such a situation will occur, or in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the prefectural governor, etc. must immediately make a report to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④When the director of a public health center has conducted an investigation under the provisions of paragraph (2), the director must make a report to a prefectural governor, etc. pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

⑤When a prefectural governor, etc. has received a report under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the prefectural governor, etc. must make a report to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.