# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第二十九条 (Article 29) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29. 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29)（申出を受けた場合における通知） — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-29 - 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. --- ### 第二十九条（申出を受けた場合における通知） — (Notice upon Receipt of a Filing) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-29 **第一項** 調査委員会は、前条第一項の規定による申出により重大事故等が発生した旨の情報を得たときは、直ちに、内閣総理大臣に対し、内閣府令で定めるところにより、その旨及び当該重大事故等の概要その他内閣府令で定める事項を通知しなければならない。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-29/par-1 If the Investigation Commission is informed that an Actual or Potential Serious Accident has occurred through a filing under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, it must notify the Prime Minister of this, give the Prime Minister an outline of the Actual or Potential Serious Accident, and notify the Prime Minister of the particulars provided by Cabinet Office Order, immediately and pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 調査委員会は、前条第一項の規定による申出により生命身体事故等（重大事故等を除く。）が発生した旨の情報を得た場合であって、当該生命身体事故等の態様、当該生命身体事故等に係る商品等又は役務の特性その他当該生命身体事故等に関する状況に照らし、当該生命身体事故等による被害が拡大し、又は当該生命身体事故等と同種若しくは類似の生命身体事故等が発生するおそれがあると認めるときは、内閣総理大臣に対し、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該生命身体事故等が発生した旨及び当該生命身体事故等の概要その他内閣府令で定める事項を通知するものとする。 art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-29/par-2 If the Investigation Commission is informed that an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm (other than an Actual or Potential Serious Accident) has occurred through a filing under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and finds it to be likely, in light of the form of the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, the characteristics of the good or product or the service involved in the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, and other circumstances of the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, that instances of harm from the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm will increase or that the same or a similar type of Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm will occur, it must notify the Prime Minister that the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm has occurred, give the Prime Minister an outline of the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, and notify the Prime Minister of the particulars provided by Cabinet Office Order, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定は、調査委員会が、第十二条第一項又は第二項の規定による通知をしなければならないこととされている者から前条第一項の規定による申出を受けた場合には、適用しない。 art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-29/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if the Investigation Commission receives the filing under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article from a person that is required to notify the Prime Minister under the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if the Investigation Commission receives the filing under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article from a person that is required to notify the Prime Minister as under the provisions of Article 12, paragraph(1) or paragraph (2)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb --- ## Cites - art-29/par-1: 前条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-28/par-1 - art-29/par-2: 前条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-28/par-1 - art-29/par-3: 前二項 → 消費者安全法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-29/par-1 - art-29/par-3: 前二項 → 消費者安全法 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-29/par-2 - art-29/par-3: 第十二条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-12/par-1 - art-29/par-3: 第二項 → 消費者安全法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-12/par-2 - art-29/par-3: 前条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-28/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第二十九条第三項（申出を受けた場合における通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-29/par-3 - 消費者安全法 第三十八条第一項（消費者への注意喚起等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-38/par-1 - 消費者安全法 第三十八条第二項（消費者への注意喚起等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-38/par-2 - 消費者安全法 第三十九条第一項（他の法律の規定に基づく措置の実施に関する要求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-39/par-1 --- ## 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 29, paragraph (3) — 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