# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第十一条の四 (Article 11-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4. 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: 第十一条の四 (Article 11-4)（協議会の事務等） — address `art-11-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4 - 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. --- ### 第十一条の四（協議会の事務等） — (Administrative Processes of Councils) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-11-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4 **第一項** 協議会は、前条の目的を達成するため、必要な情報を交換するとともに、消費者安全の確保のための取組に関する協議を行うものとする。 art-11-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-1 A Council is to exchange necessary information and discuss measures for Ensuring Consumer Safety, in order to achieve the aim described in the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 協議会の構成員（次項において単に「構成員」という。）は、前項の協議の結果に基づき、消費者安全の確保のため、消費生活上特に配慮を要する消費者と適当な接触を保ち、その状況を見守ることその他の必要な取組を行うものとする。 art-11-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-2 The members of a Council (referred to as "Members" in the following paragraph) are to adequately correspond with Consumers who require special care for consumer affairs, monitor the situation thereof, and take other necessary measures in order to Ensure Consumer Safety, in accordance with the results of the discussion mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 協議会は、第一項に規定する情報の交換及び協議を行うため必要があると認めるとき、又は構成員が行う消費者安全の確保のための取組に関し他の構成員から要請があった場合その他の内閣府令で定める場合において必要があると認めるときは、構成員に対し、消費生活上特に配慮を要する消費者に関する情報の提供、意見の表明その他の必要な協力を求めることができる。 art-11-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-3 If a Council finds it necessary to do so for exchanging information or having discussions as provided in paragraph (1), or other Members make a request regarding a Member's activities for Ensuring Consumer Safety or as provided by Cabinet Office Order, a Council may request Members to provide information on Consumers who require special care for consumer affairs, state an opinion, or cooperate as necessary. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a Council finds it necessary to do so for exchanging information or having discussions as provided in paragraph (1), or Members make a request regarding other Members' activities for Ensuring Consumer Safety or as provided by Cabinet Office Order, a Council may request Members to provide information on Consumers who require special care for consumer affairs, state an opinion, or cooperate as necessary." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb **第四項** 協議会の庶務は、協議会を構成する地方公共団体において処理する。 art-11-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-4 The general affairs of a Council are to be dealt with by the local government that constitutes the Council. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-11-4/par-1: 前条 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の三 (Article 11-3), art-11-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-3 - art-11-4/par-2: 次項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の四第三項 (Article 11-4, paragraph (3)), art-11-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-3 - art-11-4/par-2: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の四第一項 (Article 11-4, paragraph (1)), art-11-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-1 - art-11-4/par-3: 第一項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の四第一項 (Article 11-4, paragraph (1)), art-11-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第十一条の四第二項（協議会の事務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-2 - 消費者安全法 第十一条の四第三項（協議会の事務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-4/par-3 - 消費者安全法 第十一条の六第一項（協議会の定める事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Consumer Safety Act, written 2026-11-02 - 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 (消費者安全法), Article 11-4, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), 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