The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, import or receive seeds of the Cannabis plant for the purpose of crime lab investigation related to the Cannabis plant.
厚生労働大臣は、この法律の規定にかかわらず、大麻草に関する犯罪鑑識の用に供する目的で大麻草の種子を輸入し、又は譲り受けることができる。
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to deliver the seeds of the Cannabis plant imported or received pursuant to the provisions in the preceding paragraph to the organizations of the national government or of a prefecture responsible for the crime lab investigation related to the Cannabis plant.
An official who works for an organization of the preceding paragraph may use or cultivate the seeds of the Cannabis plant that the organization has received from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, for crime lab investigations related to the Cannabis plant.
The head of an organization who receives the seeds of the Cannabis plant delivered by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions in paragraph (2) must keep an accounting book and state the name and quantity of seeds of the Cannabis plant used in crime lab investigation related to the Cannabis plant, the respective date and other information specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in it.