# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-37. 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（不利益取扱いの禁止） — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条（不利益取扱いの禁止） — (Prohibition of Adverse Treatment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-37 **第一項** 何人も、第二十三条第二項若しくは第三項若しくは第二十七条第二項若しくは第四項の規定による処分に応ずる行為をしたこと又は第二十八条第一項の規定による申出をしたことを理由として、解雇その他の不利益な取扱いを受けない。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-37/par-1 No person is to be subjected to a discharge from employment or other adverse treatment on the grounds of having acted in conformity with an administrative measure under the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (2) or paragraph (4), or on the grounds of having made a filing pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "No person is to be subjected to a discharge from employment or other adverse treatment on the grounds of having acted in conformity with an administrative measure under the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (2) or paragraph (4), or on the grounds of having made a filing pursuant to provisions of Article 28, paragraph (1)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb --- ## Cites - art-37/par-1: 第二十三条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項 (Article 23, paragraph (2)), art-23/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2 - art-37/par-1: 第三項 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第三項 (Article 23, paragraph (3)), art-23/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-3 - art-37/par-1: 第二十七条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第二十七条第二項 (Article 27, paragraph (2)), art-27/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-27/par-2 - art-37/par-1: 第四項 → 消費者安全法 第二十七条第四項 (Article 27, paragraph (4)), art-27/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-27/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-27/par-4 - art-37/par-1: 第二十八条第一項 → 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 --- ## 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 37, 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 — 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