# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第五十五条 (Article 55) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55. 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55) — address `art-55` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条 art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1 A person falling under one of the following items is subject to a fine of not more than 300,000 yen: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第二十三条第二項第一号若しくは第三項又は第二十七条第四項の規定による報告の徴取に対して虚偽の報告をした者 art-55/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-1 a person giving a false report when faced with the collection of reports under the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2), item (i); paragraph (3) of that Article; or Article 27, paragraph (4); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第二十三条第二項第二号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検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避し、又はこれらの規定による質問に対して虚偽の陳述をした者 art-55/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-2 a person refusing, hindering, or evading an examination under Article 23, paragraph (2), item (ii); paragraph (3) of that Article; or Article 27, paragraph (2) or paragraph (4); or giving a false statement when faced with questioning under those provisions; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a person refusing, hindering, or evading an investigation under Article 23, paragraph (2), item (ii); paragraph (3) of that Article; or Article 27, paragraph (2) or paragraph (4); or giving a false statement when faced with questioning under those provisions;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb **三** 第二十三条第二項第三号若しくは第三項又は第二十七条第四項の規定による質問に対して虚偽の陳述をした者 art-55/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-3 a person giving a false statement when faced with questioning under the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2), item (iii); paragraph (3) of that Article; or Article 27, paragraph (4); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 第二十三条第二項第四号若しくは第三項又は第二十七条第四項の規定による処分に違反して物件を提出しない者 art-55/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-4 a person failing to produce a material, in violation of an administrative measure under the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2), item (iv); paragraph (3) of that Article; or Article 27, paragraph (4); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 第二十三条第二項第五号若しくは第三項又は第二十七条第四項の規定による処分に違反して物件を保全せず、又は移動した者 art-55/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-5 a person failing to keep a material safe or relocating it, in violation of an administrative measure under the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2), item (v); paragraph (3) of that Article; or Article 27, paragraph (4). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a person failing to keep a material safe or relocating it, in violation of an administrative measure under the provisions of Article 23, paragraph(2), item (v), paragraph (3) of that Article; or Article 27, paragraph (4)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb --- ## Cites - art-55/par-1/item-1: 第二十三条第二項第一号 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項第一号 (Article 23, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-23/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-1 - art-55/par-1/item-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-55/par-1/item-1: 第二十七条第四項 → 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-55/par-1/item-2: 第二十三条第二項第二号 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項第二号 (Article 23, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-23/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-2 - art-55/par-1/item-2: 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-55/par-1/item-2: 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-55/par-1/item-2: 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-55/par-1/item-3: 第二十三条第二項第三号 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項第三号 (Article 23, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-23/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-3 - art-55/par-1/item-3: 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-55/par-1/item-3: 第二十七条第四項 → 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-55/par-1/item-4: 第二十三条第二項第四号 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項第四号 (Article 23, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-23/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-4 - art-55/par-1/item-4: 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-55/par-1/item-4: 第二十七条第四項 → 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-55/par-1/item-5: 第二十三条第二項第五号 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項第五号 (Article 23, paragraph (2), item (v)), art-23/par-2/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-5 - art-55/par-1/item-5: 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-55/par-1/item-5: 第二十七条第四項 → 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 ## 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 55, paragraph (1), item (ii) — 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 (消費者安全法), Article 55, paragraph (1), item (v) — 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