Consumer Safety Act
消費者安全法
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消費者安全の確保
Preventing consumers from suffering harm in their lives as consumers and keeping them safe.
消費者の消費生活における被害を防止し、その安全を確保すること
The Consumer Safety Investigation Commission (消費者安全調査委員会), set up within the Consumer Affairs Agency (消費者庁).
消費者
An individual, except when carrying on a commercial, industrial, financial or other business.
個人（商業、工業、金融業その他の事業を行う場合におけるものを除く。）
事業者
Any person carrying on a commercial, industrial, financial or other business; an individual counts only when acting in the course of such a business.
商業、工業、金融業その他の事業を行う者（個人にあっては、当該事業を行う場合におけるものに限る。）
A corporation registered by the Prime Minister to hold the qualification examination for consumer affairs consultants (消費生活相談員資格試験).
試験業務
The work of holding the qualification examination for consumer affairs consultants (消費生活相談員資格試験).
An accident in which a consumer suffers harm to life or body to the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, or a situation likely to cause such an accident, as listed in Article 2, paragraph (5), items (i) and (ii).
前項第一号に掲げる事故及び同項第二号に掲げる事態
Any of three kinds of event: an accident in which a consumer using a business's goods, facilities or services suffers harm to life or body to the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets (unless it clearly was not caused by the thing being unsafe); a situation in which a consumer used something not safe to use that a Cabinet Order treats as likely to cause such an accident; or a business's false or exaggerated advertising or other conduct a Cabinet Order names that may unfairly harm consumers' interests or their free and rational choice.
次に掲げる事故又は事態
The Prime Minister's registration of a body as a Registered Testing Organization (登録試験機関) to hold the qualification examination for consumer affairs consultants, granted on the application of the body that wants to do that work.
試験
The qualification examination for consumer affairs consultants (消費生活相談員資格試験) under Article 10-3, paragraph (1) of the Consumer Safety Act, which tests whether a person has the knowledge and skills needed to give consumer affairs consultations.
The National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan, an Incorporated Administrative Agency (独立行政法人).
An investigation by the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission to find the cause of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等) and of the harm it does, other than aircraft, railway and marine accidents as defined in the Act for Establishment of the Japan Transport Safety Board.
Goods and products a business (事業者) supplies as its business, and objects, facilities and structures it provides or lets people use for its business or uses in providing a service as or for its business.
事業者がその事業として供給する商品若しくは製品又は事業者がその事業のために提供し、利用に供し、若しくは事業者がその事業として若しくはその事業のために提供する役務に使用する物品、施設若しくは工作物
事故等原因
Collectively, the cause of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等) and the cause of the harm it does, which the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission investigates under Article 16, paragraph (1), item (i).
事故等原因調査等
The Consumer Safety Investigation Commission's own investigation into the cause of an accident (事故等原因調査), or its evaluation of the results of an investigation or inspection by another administrative body or a local government (他の行政機関等による調査等).
An accident in which a consumer suffers harm to life or body that a Cabinet Order (政令) treats as serious, or a situation in which something not safe to use was used that a Cabinet Order treats as likely to cause such an accident.
次に掲げる事故又は事態
協議会
A Consumer Safety Local Council (消費者安全確保地域協議会) that national and local government bodies working on consumer protection may set up together to ensure consumer safety in a local government's area.
Harm from an actual or potential consumer-related incident (消費者事故等) spreading, or the same or a similar incident happening.
基本方針
The basic policy on ensuring consumer safety that the Prime Minister must draw up under Article 6.
消費安全性
The safety a good, product, facility or service should normally have when a consumer uses it, judged by its characteristics, the ways it can normally be expected to be used (including eaten or drunk) and other circumstances.
商品等（事業者がその事業として供給する商品若しくは製品又は事業者がその事業のために提供し、利用に供し、若しくは事業者がその事業として若しくはその事業のために提供する役務に使用する物品、施設若しくは工作物をいう。以下同じ。）又は役務（事業者がその事業として又はその事業のために提供するものに限る。以下同じ。）の特性、それらの通常予見される使用（飲食を含む。）又は利用（以下「使用等」という。）の形態その他の商品等又は役務に係る事情を考慮して、それらの消費者による使用等が行われる時においてそれらの通常有すべき安全性
Consultation on, and mediation of, consumers' complaints against businesses (事業者) that prefectures and municipalities carry out under Article 8.
第八条第一項第二号イ及びロ又は第二項第一号及び第二号の規定に基づき都道府県又は市町村が実施する事業者に対する消費者からの苦情に係る相談及びあっせん
An investigation or inspection of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等) by another administrative body (other than the Japan Transport Safety Board), or by a local government under an Act or an order made under one, including one carried out by anyone else to whom an Act gives all or part of that work.
Harm from an actual or potential serious accident (重大事故等) spreading, or another serious accident with the same cause happening.
In Article 4, the basic principles of Article 3: that measures for consumer safety are taken quickly and efficiently on expert knowledge to prevent actual or potential consumer-related incidents (消費者事故等) and the spread of their harm, keep pace with changes in consumers' needs and in society while respecting proper business activity, and are carried out by the national and local governments in close cooperation, with local governments' autonomy fully respected.
The rules a Registered Testing Organization (登録試験機関) must set for its examination work and have approved by the Prime Minister before that work starts.
The Consumer Safety Investigation Commission's evaluation of whether an investigation or inspection by another administrative body or a local government (他の行政機関等による調査等) has found the cause of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm.
使用等
A consumer's use of goods, products, facilities and the like (including eating or drinking them) or of services.
消費生活センター
In Article 10-2 and Article 47, paragraph (2), the facility or body that a prefecture must, and a municipality should try to, set up under Article 10 to handle consumers' complaints against businesses and the other consumer-safety work of Article 8, staffed with consumer affairs consultants (消費生活相談員).
前条第一項又は第二項の施設又は機関
In Article 11-17, paragraph (2) and Article 57, the inventory of property, balance sheet, profit and loss or income and expenditure statement and business report a Registered Testing Organization (登録試験機関) must prepare each business year, including electronic records made in their place.
Anyone connected with an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等), including people connected with its cause and people who worked to save lives at it.
変更提案
In Article 7, a prefectural governor's proposal to the Prime Minister to amend the Basic Policy (基本方針), based on what the prefecture learned doing its consumer-safety work under Article 8, paragraph (1), submitted with a draft of the amendment.
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他の人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であって、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの
In Article 14, Article 35 and Article 38, paragraph (2), the heads of the relevant administrative bodies and local governments, the president of the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan (国民生活センター), and others concerned.
In Article 23, paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii) and Article 30, any person found to be connected with the cause of an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm or of the harm it did.
Goods, products, books, documents and other things connected with an actual or potential accident involving bodily harm (生命身体事故等), which the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission may inspect.
多数消費者財産被害事態による被害の発生又は拡大
In Article 40, harm from a situation damaging the property of many consumers (多数消費者財産被害事態) spreading, or the same or a similar situation arising.
In Article 44, a prefectural governor's request to the Prime Minister to take measures needed for consumer safety, to prevent harm to consumers in the prefecture from arising or spreading.
A situation under Article 2, paragraph (5), item (iii) in which a business (事業者) deals with consumers unfairly and against their financial interests, by presenting the goods, services, rights or terms of the deal as significantly different from what they are or in another way a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, so that the property of many consumers is or may be damaged.
第五項第三号に掲げる事態のうち、同号に定める行為に係る取引であって次の各号のいずれかに該当するものが事業者により行われることにより、多数の消費者の財産に被害を生じ、又は生じさせるおそれのあるもの
施策効果
In Article 4, paragraph (4) and Article 6, paragraph (2), item (iv), the effect that the administrative actions taken or planned under a consumer-safety policy have, or are expected to have, on consumers' lives, on society and the economy, and on how government is run.
当該施策に基づき実施し、又は実施しようとしている行政上の一連の行為が消費者の消費生活、社会経済及び行政運営に及ぼし、又は及ぼすことが見込まれる影響
In Article 7, paragraphs (2) and (3), an amendment to the Basic Policy (基本方針) that carries out all or part of the draft amendment a prefectural governor submitted with a proposal.
変更提案に係る基本方針の変更の案の内容の全部又は一部を実現することとなる基本方針の変更
In Article 11-3, the bodies of the national and local governments that work in fields connected with protecting and promoting consumers' interests.
構成員
In Article 11-4, paragraphs (2) and (3), the members of a Consumer Safety Local Council (協議会).
In Article 11-10 and Article 11-11, paragraph (1), a person who has applied for registration as a Registered Testing Organization (登録試験機関).
A way of using an electronic data processing system or other information and communications technology.
電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法
試験
The qualification examination for consumer affairs consultants (消費生活相談員資格試験) under Article 10-3, paragraph (1) of the Consumer Safety Act, which tests whether a person has the knowledge and skills needed to give consumer affairs consultations.
In Article 28, paragraph (3), a victim, or, where the victim has died or has a serious physical or mental disability, the victim's spouse, lineal relative (直系の親族) or brother or sister.