# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第四十七条 (Article 47) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-47. 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: 第四十七条 (Article 47)（権限の委任） — address `art-47` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-47 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-47 - 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. --- ### 第四十七条（権限の委任） — (Delegation of Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-47 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、第四十五条第一項の規定による権限その他この法律の規定による権限（政令で定めるものを除く。）を消費者庁長官に委任する。 art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-47/par-1 The Prime Minister delegates the authority under Article 45, paragraph (1) and other authority under this Act (except for what is provided by Cabinet Order) to the Secretary-General of the Consumer Affairs Agency. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により消費者庁長官に委任された第四十五条第一項の規定による権限に属する事務の一部は、政令で定めるところにより、都道府県知事又は消費生活センターを置く市町村の長が行うこととすることができる。 art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-47/par-2 It is permissible to decide, under Cabinet Order, that either the prefectural governor or the mayor of the municipality in which a Consumer Affairs Center has been established is to carry out a portion of the administrative processes that are part of the authority under Article 45, paragraph (1) which is delegated to the Secretary-General of the Consumer Affairs Agency pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-47/par-1: 第四十五条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-45/par-1 - art-47/par-2: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-47/par-1 - art-47/par-2: 第四十五条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-45/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第十条の二第一項第一号（消費生活センターの組織及び運営等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-10-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-10-2/par-1/item-1 - 消費者安全法 第四十七条第二項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-47/par-2 - 消費者安全法 第四十八条第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-48/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 219 — 消費者安全法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01