# 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 / Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — 第二十条 (Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-20. 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: 第二十条 (Article 20) — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-20 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十条 art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-20 **第一項** 第十八条に規定する方法による処理をした大麻草の種子は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣から当該処理がされた大麻草の種子である旨の証明書の交付を受けた者でなければ、これを輸入してはならない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-20/par-1 Seeds of the Cannabis plant that have been treated by the method prescribed in Article 18 must not be imported by any person other than a person who has received from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a certificate to the effect that the seeds of the Cannabis plant have undergone that treatment. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-20/par-1: 第十八条 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-18 ## Cited by 2 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 第二十六条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-26/par-1/item-2 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/suppl-5051-84/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/suppl-5051-84/art-7/par-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-20261101T163143-004, translated 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 222 — 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