# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（都道府県知事による提案） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（都道府県知事による提案） — (Proposals by the Prefectural Governors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、消費者安全の確保に関する施策の推進に関して、内閣総理大臣に対し、次条第一項各号に掲げる事務の実施を通じて得られた知見に基づき、基本方針の変更についての提案（以下この条において「変更提案」という。）をすることができる。この場合においては、当該変更提案に係る基本方針の変更の案を添えなければならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7/par-1 A prefectural governor may submit a proposal to the Prime Minister for an amendment to the Basic Policy that will advance policies for Ensuring Consumer Safety, based on knowledge obtained through the performance of administrative processes set forth in the items of paragraph (1) of the following Article (hereinafter in this Article, this is referred to as "Proposing" an amendment). To do so, the prefectural governor must include a draft of the amendment to the Basic Policy that the governor is Proposing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、変更提案がされた場合において、消費者委員会及び消費者安全調査委員会の意見を聴いて、当該変更提案を踏まえた基本方針の変更（変更提案に係る基本方針の変更の案の内容の全部又は一部を実現することとなる基本方針の変更をいう。次項において同じ。）をする必要があると認めるときは、遅滞なく、基本方針の変更をしなければならない。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7/par-2 If an amendment is Proposed and, after hearing the opinions of the Consumer Commission and the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission, the Prime Minister finds it necessary to amend the Basic Policy based on the amendment that has been Proposed (meaning to amend the Basic Policy in a way that fully or partially reproduces the draft of the amendment to the Basic Policy that the governor is Proposing; the same applies in the following paragraph), the Prime Minister must amend the Basic Policy without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 内閣総理大臣は、変更提案がされた場合において、消費者委員会及び消費者安全調査委員会の意見を聴いて、当該変更提案を踏まえた基本方針の変更をする必要がないと認めるときは、遅滞なく、その旨及びその理由を当該変更提案をした都道府県知事に通知しなければならない。 art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7/par-3 If an amendment is Proposed and, after hearing the opinions of the Consumer Commission and the Consumer Safety Investigation Commission, the Prime Minister finds it not to be necessary to amend the Basic Policy based on the amendment that has been Proposed, the Prime Minister must notify the prefectural governor who Proposed the amendment of the decision not to make the amendment, giving the reasons for that decision, without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/par-1: 次条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8/par-1 - art-7/par-1: この条 → 消費者安全法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7 - art-7/par-2: 次項 → 消費者安全法 第七条第三項 (Article 7, paragraph (3)), art-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第七条第一項（都道府県知事による提案） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7/par-1 - 消費者安全法 第七条第二項（都道府県知事による提案） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-7/par-2 --- ## 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