# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第七十八条 (Article 78) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-78. 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: 第七十八条 (Article 78) — address `art-78` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-78 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-78 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条 art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-78 **第一項** この法律の規定により地方公共団体（都道府県を除く。次項において同じ。）の長が行う処分（地方自治法第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務（次項及び次条において「第一号法定受託事務」という。）に係るものに限る。）についての審査請求の裁決に不服がある者は、厚生労働大臣（第五十九条第二項（第六十八条第一項及び第三項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による処分に係るものにあつては、内閣総理大臣。次項において同じ。）に対して再審査請求をすることができる。 art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-78/par-1 A person who is dissatisfied with the ruling on request for examination of a disposition (limited to a disposition related to type 1 statutory entrusted functions defined in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (referred to as "type 1 statutory entrusted functions" in the following paragraph and the following Article)) made by the head of a local government (excluding prefectures; the same applies in the following paragraph) pursuant to the provisions of this Act, may make a request for re-examination to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (for a disposition under the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), the Prime Minister; the same applies in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person who is dissatisfied with the ruling on request for examination of a disposition (limited to a disposition related to type 1 statutory entrusted functions defined in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (referred to as "type 1 statutory entrusted functions" in the following paragraph and the following Article)) made by the head of a local government (excluding prefectures; the same applies in the following paragraph) pursuant to the provisions of this Act, may make a request for re-examination to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (for a disposition under the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3), the Prime Minister); the same applies in the following paragraph)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第二項** 地方公共団体の長がこの法律の規定によりその処理することとされた事務のうち第一号法定受託事務に係る処分をする権限をその補助機関である職員又はその管理に属する行政機関の長に委任した場合において、委任を受けた職員又は行政機関の長がその委任に基づいてした処分につき、地方自治法第二百五十五条の二第二項の再審査請求の裁決があつたときは、当該裁決に不服がある者は、同法第二百五十二条の十七の四第五項から第七項までの規定の例により、厚生労働大臣に対して再々審査請求をすることができる。 art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-78/par-2 When the head of a local government delegates the authority to make dispositions related to type 1 statutory entrusted functions among the affairs to be handled by them pursuant to the provisions of this Act to an official positioned as their subsidiary body or to the head of an administrative organ under their control, and a ruling on a request for re-examination which is referred to in Article 255-2, paragraph (2) of the Local Autonomy Act against a disposition taken by the official or head of the administrative organ based on the authority delegated has been made, a person who is dissatisfied with the ruling may make a request for further re-examination to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Article 252-17-4, paragraphs (5) through (7) of that Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78/par-1: 次項 → 食品衛生法 第七十八条第二項 (Article 78, paragraph (2)), art-78/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-78/par-2 - art-78/par-1: 地方自治法第二条第九項第一号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二条第九項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i)), art-2/par-9/item-1 — not held in this collection - art-78/par-1: 次条 → 食品衛生法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79 - art-78/par-1: 第五十九条第二項 → 食品衛生法 第五十九条第二項 (Article 59, paragraph (2)), art-59/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59/par-2 - art-78/par-1: 第六十八条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-1 - art-78/par-1: 第三項 → 食品衛生法 第六十八条第三項 (Article 68, paragraph (3)), art-68/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-3 - art-78/par-2: 地方自治法第二百五十五条の二第二項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十五条の二第二項 (Article 255-2, paragraph (2)), art-255-2/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-78/par-2: 同法第二百五十二条の十七の四第五項から第七項まで → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十七の四第五項 (Article 252-17-4, paragraph (5)), art-252-17-4/par-5 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第七十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-78/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Food Sanitation Act, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (食品衛生法), Article 78, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), 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