# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31. 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（報告書等） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十一条（報告書等） — (Written Reports) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31 **第一項** 調査委員会は、事故等原因調査を完了したときは、当該生命身体事故等に関する次の事項を記載した報告書を作成し、これを内閣総理大臣に提出するとともに、公表しなければならない。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-1 The Investigation Commission must compile a written report giving the following information about an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, submit it to the Prime Minister, and disclose it to the public, after completing the Investigation into the Cause or Source: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 事故等原因調査の経過 art-31/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-1/item-1 the progression of the Investigation into the Cause or Source; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 認定した事実 art-31/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-1/item-2 the facts that were found; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 事実を認定した理由 art-31/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-1/item-3 the reasons for making those findings of fact; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 事故等原因 art-31/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-1/item-4 the Cause or Source; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** その他必要な事項 art-31/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-1/item-5 any other necessary information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 調査委員会は、前項の報告書を作成するに当たり、少数意見があるときは、当該報告書にこれを付記するものとする。 art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-2 In compiling a written report as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Investigation Commission is to add a supplementary note to the report detailing any minority opinion. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 調査委員会は、事故等原因調査を完了する前においても、当該事故等原因調査を開始した日から一年以内に事故等原因調査を完了することが困難であると見込まれる状況にあることその他の事由により必要があると認めるときは、事故等原因調査の経過について、内閣総理大臣に報告するとともに、公表するものとする。 art-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-3 If the Investigation Commission finds it necessary to do so because of circumstances that are expected to make it difficult to complete the Investigation into the Cause or Source of an actual or potential accident within one year from commencing it or due to any other reason, it is to report on the progression of the Investigation into the Cause or Source to the Prime Minister and disclose this to the public even before completing the Investigation into the Cause or Source. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Investigation Commission finds it necessary to do so because of circumstances that are expected to make it difficult to complete the Investigation into the Cause or Source of an actual or potential accident within one year from commencing it or due to any other reason, it may report on the progression of the Investigation into the Cause or Source to the Prime Minister and disclose this to the public even before completing the Investigation into the Cause or Source." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb --- ## Cites - art-31/par-2: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第三十一条第二項（報告書等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-31/par-2 --- ## 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 31, 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