# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第七十九条 (Article 79) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-79. 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79) — address `art-79` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条 art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79 **第一項** 第二十五条第一項（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。）、第二十六条第一項（第六十八条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第二十八条第一項（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。）、第三十条第二項（第五十四条に規定する営業（食品又は添加物の流通の状況を考慮して政令で定めるものに限る。）の許可に付随する監視指導に係る部分を除くものとし、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。）、第五十九条（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。）、第六十三条（第六十八条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第六十四条第一項（第六十八条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により都道府県が処理することとされている事務は、第一号法定受託事務とする。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-1 The affairs that are to be handled by prefectures pursuant to the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 26, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)), Article 28, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 30, paragraph (2) (excluding the part related to monitoring and guidance incidental to the approval of conducting business (limited to business specified by Cabinet Order by taking into consideration the status of distribution of food or additives) prescribed in Article 54, and including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 59 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 63 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)), and Article 64, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)) are deemed to be type 1 statutory entrusted functions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二十八条第一項（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。）、第三十条第二項（第五十四条に規定する営業（食品又は添加物の流通の状況を考慮して政令で定めるものに限る。）の許可に付随する監視指導に係る部分を除くものとし、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。）、第五十九条（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。）、第六十三条（第六十八条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第六十四条第一項（第六十八条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により保健所を設置する市又は特別区が処理することとされている事務は、第一号法定受託事務とする。 art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-2 The affairs that are to be handled by cities with public health centers or special wards pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 30, paragraph (2) (excluding the part related to monitoring and guidance incidental to the approval of conducting business (limited to business specified by Cabinet Order by taking into consideration the status of distribution of food or additives) prescribed in Article 54, and including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 59 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3)), Article 63 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)), and Article 64, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraph (1)) are to be type 1 statutory entrusted functions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79/par-1: 第二十五条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-25/par-1 - art-79/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-79/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-79/par-1: 第二十六条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項 (Article 26, paragraph (1)), art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1 - art-79/par-1: 第二十八条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-1 - art-79/par-1: 第三十条第二項 → 食品衛生法 第三十条第二項 (Article 30, paragraph (2)), art-30/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-30/par-2 - art-79/par-1: 第五十四条 → 食品衛生法 第五十四条 (Article 54), art-54 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-54 - art-79/par-1: 第五十九条 → 食品衛生法 第五十九条 (Article 59), art-59 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59 - art-79/par-1: 第六十三条 → 食品衛生法 第六十三条 (Article 63), art-63 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63 - art-79/par-1: 第六十四条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第六十四条第一項 (Article 64, paragraph (1)), art-64/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-1 - art-79/par-2: 第二十八条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-1 - art-79/par-2: 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-79/par-2: 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-79/par-2: 第三十条第二項 → 食品衛生法 第三十条第二項 (Article 30, paragraph (2)), art-30/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-30/par-2 - art-79/par-2: 第五十四条 → 食品衛生法 第五十四条 (Article 54), art-54 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-54 - art-79/par-2: 第五十九条 → 食品衛生法 第五十九条 (Article 59), art-59 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59 - art-79/par-2: 第六十三条 → 食品衛生法 第六十三条 (Article 63), art-63 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63 - art-79/par-2: 第六十四条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第六十四条第一項 (Article 64, paragraph (1)), art-64/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-1 ## 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 - 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