# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第五十一条 (Article 51) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-51. 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51) — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条 art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-51 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-51/par-1 A person falling under one of the following items is subject to imprisonment for not more than three years, a fine of not more than three million yen, or both: machine translation, not official **一** 第四十一条第一項の規定による禁止又は制限に違反した者 art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-51/par-1/item-1 a person violating a prohibition or restriction under Article 41, paragraph (1); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第四十二条の規定による命令に違反した者 art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-51/par-1/item-2 a person violating an order under Article 42. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51/par-1/item-1: 第四十一条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-1 - art-51/par-1/item-2: 第四十二条 → 消費者安全法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-42 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第五十六条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-56/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-56/par-1/item-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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