# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第七十七条 (Article 77) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-77. 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: 食品衛生法 (Food Sanitation Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二百三十三号 - English title "Food Sanitation 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: 第七十七条 (Article 77) — address `art-77` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-77 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条 art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-77 **第一項** 前条本文に規定するもののほか、この法律中都道府県が処理することとされている事務で政令で定めるものは、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市（以下「指定都市」という。）及び同法第二百五十二条の二十二第一項の中核市（以下「中核市」という。）においては、政令の定めるところにより、指定都市又は中核市（以下「指定都市等」という。）が処理するものとする。この場合においては、この法律中都道府県に関する規定は、指定都市等に関する規定として指定都市等に適用があるものとする。 art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-77/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in the main clause of the preceding Article, affairs specified by Cabinet Order as those to be handled by prefectures in this Act are to be handled by designated cities or core cities (referred to below as "designated cities, etc.") in designated cities referred to in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947) (referred to below as "designated cities") and core cities referred to in Article 252-22, paragraph (1) of the same Act (referred to below as "core cities"), pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. In such a case, the provisions of this Act concerning prefectures apply to designated cities, etc. as the provisions concerning designated cities, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-77/par-1: 前条 → 食品衛生法 第七十六条 (Article 76), art-76 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-76 - art-77/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-77/par-1: 同法第二百五十二条の二十二第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の二十二第一項 (Article 252-22, paragraph (1)), art-252-22/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 食品衛生法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000233/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02