# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第二十二条 (Article 22) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-22. 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: 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（職務従事の制限） — address `art-22` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条（職務従事の制限） — (Restrictions on Engagement in Duties) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-22 **第一項** 調査委員会は、委員長、委員、臨時委員又は専門委員が事故等原因調査等の対象となる生命身体事故等に係る事故等原因に関係があるおそれのある者であると認めるとき、又はその者と密接な関係を有すると認めるときは、当該委員長、委員、臨時委員又は専門委員を当該事故等原因調査等に従事させてはならない。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-22/par-1 If the Investigation Commission finds that the chairperson or a member, temporary member, or expert member is likely to be connected to the Cause or Source of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm which is subject to an Investigation or Evaluation, or finds that the person is closely related to a person with such a connection, the Investigation Commission must not allow the chairperson, member, temporary member, or expert member to engage in the Investigation or Evaluation. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の委員長、委員又は臨時委員は、当該事故等原因調査等に関する調査委員会の会議に出席することができない。 art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-22/par-2 A chairperson, member, or temporary member as referred to in the preceding paragraph must not attend any meeting of the Investigation Commission concerning the relevant Investigation or Evaluation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-22/par-2: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第二十二条第一項 (Article 22, paragraph (1)), art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-22/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第二十二条第二項（職務従事の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-22/par-2 --- ## Sources - 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch consumer-safety-act-20261101T192903-001, translated 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 219 — 消費者安全法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01