Chapter XI Penal Provisions
第十一章 罰則
第八十一条
A person falling under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding three million yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、三年以下の拘禁刑又は三百万円以下の罰金に処する。
a person who violates the provisions of Article 6 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (2)), Article 10, paragraph (1), or Article 12 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1));
a person who violates the prohibition under the provisions of Article 7, paragraphs (1) through (3);
第七条第一項から第三項までの規定による禁止に違反した者
a business operator that disobeys an order issued by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a prefectural governor (when the terms are deemed to be replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 76, a mayor or a ward mayor; the same applies below in this item) under the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)) or an order issued by the Prime Minister or a prefectural governor under the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)) (including persons who furnish food prescribed in Article 68, paragraph (3)), or a person who conducts business in violation of a disposition under the provisions of Article 60 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)).
A person who has committed a crime referred to in the preceding paragraph may be punished by both imprisonment and a fine depending on the circumstances.
前項の罪を犯した者には、情状により拘禁刑及び罰金を併科することができる。
第八十二条
A person who violates the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (2)) or paragraph (3), Article 16 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 19, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)), Article 20 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)), or Article 55, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)) is punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding two million yen.
A person who has committed a crime referred to in the preceding paragraph may be punished by both imprisonment and a fine depending on the circumstances.
前項の罪を犯した者には、情状により拘禁刑及び罰金を併科することができる。
第八十三条
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)).
第八十四条
If an order of suspension of business under the provisions of Article 43 is violated, an officer or employee of the registered conformity assessment body who has committed the violation is punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or a fine not exceeding one million yen.
第八十五条
A person falling under any of the following items is punished by a fine not exceeding 500 thousand yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、これを五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
a person who has refused, obstructed or evaded an on-site inspection or collection and removal by an official under the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3));
a person who has not made a report under the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)) or has made a false report;
a person who has not made a notification under the provisions of Article 27, Article 48, paragraph (8) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1) for both cases), Article 57, paragraph (1), or Article 58, paragraph (1), or has made a false notification; or
a person who violates an order under the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (2).
第四十六条第二項の規定による命令に違反した者
第八十六条
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.
第八十七条
When a food sanitation supervisor has neglected their duties under the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (3), and there have been acts falling under violations referred to in Articles 81 through 83 concerning food or additives related to their supervision at the facility, the food sanitation supervisor is punished by a fine prescribed in the respective Articles depending on the manner of the acts; provided, however, that this does not apply when the food sanitation supervisor is the person who has committed the acts.
食品衛生管理者が第四十八条第三項に規定する職務を怠つたときは、当該施設においてその管理に係る食品又は添加物に関し第八十一条から第八十三条までの違反に該当する行為があつた場合において、その行為の態様に応じ各本条の罰金刑を科する。ただし、その食品衛生管理者がその行為を行つた者であるときは、この限りでない。
第八十八条
When a representative of a corporation, an agent, an employee or any other worker of a corporation or a person has committed an act in violation of the provisions stated in the following items in relation to the business of the corporation or the person, in addition to the offender being punished, the corporation is punished by a fine prescribed in each of those items, and the person is punished by a fine referred to in the respective Articles; provided, however, that this does not apply when the person is to be punished by a fine as a food sanitation supervisor pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article:
法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関し、次の各号に掲げる規定の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人に対して当該各号に定める罰金刑を、その人に対して各本条の罰金刑を科する。ただし、その人が食品衛生管理者として、前条の規定により罰金刑を科せられるべきときは、その人については、この限りでない。
the provisions of Article 81 or Article 82 (limited to the part related to the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (2)) or paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)), and Article 20 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1))):a fine not exceeding 100 million yen; and
the provisions of Article 82 (excluding the part related to the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (2)) or paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)), and Article 20 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1))), Article 83, or Article 85:a fine referred to in the respective Articles.
第八十九条
A person who has not kept financial statements in violation of the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (1), has not entered the matters that should be entered in financial statements, has made a false statement in them, or has refused a request under the provisions of each item of paragraph (2) of that Article without legitimate grounds, is punished by a civil fine not exceeding 200 thousand yen.
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
additives
「添加物」
A substance used in or on food, by adding, mixing, soaking or any other method, in the course of producing food or to process or preserve it.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (2)· 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
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)
financial statements, etc.
「財務諸表等」
The inventory of property, balance sheet, profit and loss or income and expenditure statement, and business report (including electronic or magnetic records made in their place) that a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関) must prepare within three months after each business year ends and keep at its office for five years (Article 39, paragraph (1)).
Short name set inArticle 39, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 39, paragraph (2); and Article 89
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.
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.