When a violation stated in any of the following items has been committed, the officer or the employee of a registered conformity assessment body who has committed the violation is punished by a fine not exceeding 500 thousand yen:
次の各号のいずれかに掲げる違反があつた場合には、その違反行為をした登録検査機関の役員又は職員は、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
when they have abolished all the operations for product inspections without obtaining the approval referred to in Article 38;
when they have failed to state the matters prescribed in Article 44, have made a false statement, or have failed to preserve books, in violation of that Article;
when they have failed to make a report under the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) or have made a false report;
第四十七条第一項の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
when they have refused, obstructed, or evaded inspections under the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1), have not given answers to questions under the provisions of that paragraph, or have given false answers.
registered conformity assessment body
「登録検査機関」
A corporation registered by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 33, paragraph (1) as a body that carries out product inspections (製品検査).
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
product inspections
「製品検査」
The inspections by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, a prefectural governor or a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関) that certain food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages a Cabinet Order (政令) names must pass before they are sold or used in business (Article 25, paragraph (1)), or that may be ordered for products likely to break the rules: further products of a maker whose product was found in breach, imports of the same kind of products made by such a maker, or imports that the conditions where they are produced make likely to be in breach (Article 26, paragraphs (1) to (3)).
Short name set inArticle 29, paragraph (1)
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.