# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第十一条の十八 (Article 11-18)

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- Law: 消費者安全法 (Consumer Safety Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十号
- English title "Consumer Safety Act": 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: 第十一条の十八 (Article 11-18)（試験委員） — address `art-11-18`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-18
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-18
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### 第十一条の十八（試験委員） — (Examiners)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-11-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-18</sup>

  **第一項**  登録試験機関は、試験委員を選任したときは、遅滞なく、内閣総理大臣にその旨を届け出なければならない。これを変更したときも、同様とする。
  <sup>art-11-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-18/par-1</sup>
  If a Registered Testing Organization appoints examiners, the organization must notify the Prime Minister of the appointment without delay. If the appointment is changed, the organization must notify the Prime Minister without delay.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a Registered Testing Organization appoints examiners, the organization must notify the Prime Minister of the appointment without delay. If the appointment is changed, the organization is to notify the Prime Minister." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb</sup>

  **第二項**  内閣総理大臣は、試験委員が、この法律、この法律に基づく命令若しくは処分若しくは試験業務規程に違反する行為をしたとき、又は試験業務の実施に関し著しく不適当な行為をしたときは、登録試験機関に対し、当該試験委員の解任を命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-11-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-18/par-2</sup>
  If an examiner violates this Act, the provisions of any order or administrative measures under this Act, or Regulations for Testing Tasks, or commits an extremely improper act in Testing Tasks, the Prime Minister may order the Registered Testing Organization concerned to dismiss the examiner.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If an examiner violates this Act, the provisions of any order or administrative measures under this Act, or Regulations for Testing Tasks, or commits an extremely improper act in Testing Tasks, the Prime Minister may order a Registered Testing Organization concerned to dismiss the examiner." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb</sup>

  **第三項**  前項の規定による命令により試験委員の職を解任され、解任の日から二年を経過しない者は、試験委員となることができない。
  <sup>art-11-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-18/par-3</sup>
  Those who were dismissed from the post of an examiner due to the order pursuant to the preceding paragraph less than two years ago may not become an examiner.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-11-18/par-3: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の十八第二項 (Article 11-18, paragraph (2)), art-11-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-18/par-2

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 消費者安全法 第十一条の十八第三項（試験委員） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-18/par-3
- 消費者安全法 第十一条の二十二第二項第三号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-22/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-22/par-2/item-3

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Consumer Safety Act, written 2026-11-02
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 消費者安全法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000050/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Consumer Safety Act (消費者安全法), Article 11-18, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Consumer Safety Act (消費者安全法), Article 11-18, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Consumer Safety Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01
- This site's parser, version 219 — 消費者安全法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01
