Article 39Requests to Implement Measures Based on the Provisions of Any Other Law
第三十九条（他の法律の規定に基づく措置の実施に関する要求）
If there are measures based on any other law that can be taken to prevent Instances of Harm to Consumers from Occurring or Increasing, and if, having been notified pursuant to Article 12, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) or pursuant to Article 29, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) or having been otherwise informed of the occurrence of an Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident, the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary to promptly implement those measures in order to prevent Instances of Harm to Consumers from Occurring or Increasing, the Prime Minister may ask the minister with jurisdiction over the administrative processes involved in the implementation of those measures to promptly implement those measures.
After asking for the prompt implementation of measures pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister may ask the minister referred to in that paragraph to report on the status of the measures' implementation.
Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident
「消費者事故等」
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.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)· applies throughout the law
Instances of Harm to Consumers from Occurring or Increasing
「消費者被害の発生又は拡大」
Harm from an actual or potential consumer-related incident (消費者事故等) spreading, or the same or a similar incident happening.
Short name set inArticle 38, paragraph (1)
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.