A person falling under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding one million yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。
a person who violates the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (2), Article 11, Article 18, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)) or paragraph (3), Article 25, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 26, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)), or Article 63, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1));
a person who violates the prohibition under the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)) or Article 17, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3));
a person who divulges any secret they have learned in the course of duty in violation of the provisions of Article 40, paragraph (1);
第四十条第一項の規定に違反して、その職務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らした者
a person who violates the criteria under the provisions of Article 54 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)) or violates the conditions under the provisions of Article 55, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)); or
a business operator that disobeys an order issued by a prefectural governor (when the terms are deemed to be replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 76, a mayor or a ward mayor) under the provisions of Article 61 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)) (including persons who furnish food prescribed in that paragraph), or a person who conducts business in violation of a disposition under the provisions of Article 61 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)).
food
「食品」
All food and drink, except the pharmaceutical products, quasi-pharmaceutical products and regenerative medicine products defined in the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
business
「営業」
Collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting or selling food or additives, or making, importing or selling apparatus or containers and packages, as a trade; collecting food in farming and fisheries is not included.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (7)· applies throughout the law
business operator
「営業者」
A person or corporation that runs a business (営業) as this Act defines it: collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting or selling food or additives, or making, importing or selling apparatus or containers and packages, as a trade.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (8)· 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.