# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五百七十二条 (Article 572) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-572. 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: 商法 (Commercial Code), 明治三十二年法律第四十八号 - English title "Commercial Code": Ministry of Justice translation - 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: 第五百七十二条 (Article 572)（危険物に関する通知義務） — address `art-572` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-572 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-572 - 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. --- ### 第五百七十二条（危険物に関する通知義務） — (Obligation to Give Notice of Dangerous Goods) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-572 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-572 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-572 **第一項** 荷送人は、運送品が引火性、爆発性その他の危険性を有するものであるときは、その引渡しの前に、運送人に対し、その旨及び当該運送品の品名、性質その他の当該運送品の安全な運送に必要な情報を通知しなければならない。 art-572/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-572/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-572/par-1 If the goods to be transported are goods of an inflammable, explosive or otherwise dangerous nature, a shipper, before delivering them, must notify a carrier of this fact and of the information necessary for their safe transportation, including the product name and nature of the goods. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百六十四条第一項（物品運送に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-564/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-564/par-1 - 商法 第七百七条第一項（運送及び船舶賃貸借に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-707/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 商法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05