# 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 / Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — 第十二条の八 (Article 12-8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 (Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation), 昭和二十三年法律第百二十四号 - English title "Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation": claude-opus-5 - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十二条の八 (Article 12-8) — address `art-12-8` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十二条の八 art-12-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8 **第一項** 免許の有効期間が満了した者（引き続き免許を受けている者を除く。）、第十二条の六第一項又は前条第二項の規定による免許の取消しを受けた者及び同条第三項の規定により届け出なければならない者（以下この条において「免許期間満了者等」という。）については、免許期間満了者等がこれらの事由の生じた日から五十日以内に、その所有し、又は管理する大麻を第一種大麻草採取栽培者、大麻草研究栽培者又は麻薬研究施設（麻薬及び向精神薬取締法第二条第一項第二十三号に規定する麻薬研究施設をいう。）の設置者に譲り渡す場合に限り、その譲渡し及び譲受けについては、同法第二十四条第一項及び第二十六条第三項の規定を適用せず、また、免許期間満了者等の当該大麻及び麻薬の所持については、同期間に限り、同法第二十八条第一項の規定を適用しない。 art-12-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-1 With respect to a person for whom the validity period of a license has expired (excluding a person who continues to hold a license), a person whose license has been revoked pursuant to Article 12-6, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and a person who is required to give notification pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "person whose license has expired, etc."), only in the case where the person whose license has expired, etc. transfers Cannabis that the person owns or manages to a type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator, a Cannabis plant research cultivator, or the founder of a narcotics research facility (meaning a narcotics research facility prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxiii) of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act) within 50 days from the date on which any of these grounds arose, Article 24, paragraph (1) and Article 26, paragraph (3) of that Act do not apply to that transfer and receipt, and Article 28, paragraph (1) of that Act does not apply to the possession of that Cannabis and narcotics by the person whose license has expired, etc. during that period. machine translation, not official **第二項** 免許期間満了者等は、前項に規定する事由の生じた日から五十日以内に、その所有し、又は管理する発芽不能未処理種子を大麻草栽培者に譲り渡し、又は廃棄しなければならない。 art-12-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-2 A person whose license has expired, etc. must, within 50 days from the date on which a ground prescribed in the preceding paragraph arose, transfer to a Cannabis plant cultivator, or dispose of, seeds not treated against germination that the person owns or manages. machine translation, not official **第三項** 免許期間満了者等が第一項の規定により同項の大麻を譲り渡したとき、又は前項の規定により同項の発芽不能未処理種子を譲り渡したときは、十五日以内に、当該大麻又は当該発芽不能未処理種子の品名及び数量、譲渡しの年月日並びに譲受人の氏名又は名称及び住所を都道府県知事に届け出なければならない。 art-12-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-3 When a person whose license has expired, etc. has transferred the Cannabis referred to in paragraph (1) pursuant to that paragraph, or has transferred the seeds not treated against germination referred to in the preceding paragraph pursuant to that paragraph, the person must, within 15 days, notify the prefectural governor of the name and quantity of that Cannabis or those seeds not treated against germination, the date of the transfer, and the name or title and address of the transferee. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-12-8/par-1: 第十二条の六第一項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の六第一項 (Article 12-6, paragraph (1)), art-12-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-6/par-1 - art-12-8/par-1: 前条第二項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の七第二項 (Article 12-7, paragraph (2)), art-12-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-7/par-2 - art-12-8/par-1: 同条第三項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の七第三項 (Article 12-7, paragraph (3)), art-12-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-7/par-3 - art-12-8/par-1: この条 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の八 (Article 12-8), art-12-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8 - art-12-8/par-2: 前項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の八第一項 (Article 12-8, paragraph (1)), art-12-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-1 - art-12-8/par-3: 第一項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の八第一項 (Article 12-8, paragraph (1)), art-12-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-1 - art-12-8/par-3: 前項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の八第二項 (Article 12-8, paragraph (2)), art-12-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-2 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の八第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-1 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-2 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十二条の八第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-8/par-3 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-17/par-1 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-17/par-2 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十二条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-22-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-22-4/par-1 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十五条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-25/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-25/par-1/item-5 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十五条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-25/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-25/par-1/item-8 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十五条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-25-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-25-2/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5 — English titles of cited laws, written for this site, written 2026-09-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000124/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch cannabis-cultivation-act-20261101T163143-003, translated 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch cannabis-cultivation-act-20261101T163143-003, translated 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 219 — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01