# 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 / Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — 第二十二条の五 (Article 22-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-22-5. 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: 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 (Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation), 昭和二十三年法律第百二十四号 - English title "Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation": claude-opus-5 - 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: 第二十二条の五 (Article 22-5) — address `art-22-5` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-22-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-22-5 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条の五 art-22-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-22-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-22-5 **第一項** この法律に規定する厚生労働大臣の権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、地方厚生局長に委任することができる。 art-22-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-22-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-22-5/par-1 The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the provisions of this Act, pursuant to Ordinances of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, may be delegated to the chief of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により地方厚生局長に委任された権限は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、地方厚生支局長又は地方麻薬取締支所の長に委任することができる。 art-22-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-22-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-22-5/par-2 The authority delegated to the chief of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the preceding paragraph may be delegated, pursuant to the provisions of Ordinances of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to the chief of the Regional Branch Bureau of Health and Welfare or to the chief of regional narcotics control office. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The authority delegated to the chief of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the preceding paragraph may be delegated, pursuant to the provisions of Ordinances of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to the chief of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare or to the chief of regional narcotics control office." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2594/tb --- ## Cites - art-22-5/par-2: 前項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十二条の五第一項 (Article 22-5, paragraph (1)), art-22-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-22-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-22-5/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十二条の五第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-22-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-22-5/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5 — English titles of cited laws, written for this site, written 2026-09-19 - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-02 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000124/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation (大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律), Article 22-5, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2594/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2594/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - This site's parser, version 222 — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01