# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第五十四条 (Article 54) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-54. 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: 第五十四条 (Article 54) — address `art-54` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-54 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条 art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-54 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに掲げる違反があった場合においては、その違反行為をした登録試験機関の役員又は職員は、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-54/par-1 An officer or personnel of a Registered Testing Organization who has committed any of the following violations is subject to a fine of not more than 500,000 yen: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第十一条の十六の許可を受けないで試験業務の全部を廃止したとき。 art-54/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-54/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-54/par-1/item-1 discontinuing all of the Testing Tasks without the permission described in Article 11-16; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "discontinuing all of the Testing Tasks without the approval described in Article 11-16;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb **二** 第十一条の二十三の規定に違反して帳簿を備えず、帳簿に記載せず、若しくは帳簿に虚偽の記載をし、又は帳簿を保存しなかったとき。 art-54/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-54/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-54/par-1/item-2 failing to prepare ledgers, failing to write in ledgers, writing false contents in ledgers, or failing to store ledgers, violating the provisions of Article 11-23; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 第十一条の二十四第一項の規定による報告をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告をし、又は同項の規定による立入り若しくは調査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避し、若しくは質問に対して答弁をせず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をしたとき。 art-54/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-54/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-54/par-1/item-3 failing to make a report under Article 11-24, paragraph (1), or making a false report; refusing, hindering, or evading an on-site investigation under that paragraph; or refusing to answer questions or answering falsely. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第四十五条第一項の規定による報告をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告をし、又は同項の規定による立入り、調査若しくは集取を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避し、若しくは質問に対して答弁をせず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をした者は、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-54/par-2 A person failing to make a report under Article 45, paragraph (1), or making a false report; refusing, hindering, or evading an on-site investigation or the collection of objects under that paragraph; or refusing to answer questions or answering falsely is subject to a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-54/par-1/item-1: 第十一条の十六 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の十六 (Article 11-16), art-11-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-16 - art-54/par-1/item-2: 第十一条の二十三 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の二十三 (Article 11-23), art-11-23 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-23 - art-54/par-1/item-3: 第十一条の二十四第一項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の二十四第一項 (Article 11-24, paragraph (1)), art-11-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-11-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-24/par-1 - art-54/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 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二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-56/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-56/par-1/item-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 54, paragraph (1), item (i) — 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