# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第十四条 (Article 14) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-14. 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: 第十四条 (Article 14)（資料の提供要求等） — address `art-14` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条（資料の提供要求等） — (Requests for Materials to Be Submitted) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-14 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、前条第一項の規定による情報の集約及び分析並びにその結果の取りまとめを行うため必要があると認めるときは、関係行政機関の長、関係地方公共団体の長、国民生活センターの長その他の関係者（第三十五条及び第三十八条第二項において「関係行政機関の長等」という。）に対し、資料の提供、意見の表明、消費者事故等の原因の究明のために必要な調査、分析又は検査の実施その他必要な協力を求めることができる。 art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-14/par-1 If the Prime Minister finds it necessary for consolidating and analyzing information and for compiling the results of this pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the Prime Minister may ask the head of the relevant administrative organ, the head of the relevant local government, the president of the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan, and other relevant persons (hereinafter referred to as "the Head of the Relevant Administrative Organ" in Article 35 and Article 38, paragraph (2)) to provide materials, state an opinion, carry out an examination, analysis, or inspection to investigate the cause of an Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident, or otherwise cooperate as necessary. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Prime Minister finds it necessary for consolidating and analyzing information and for compiling the results of this pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the Prime Minister may ask the head of the relevant administrative organ, the head of the relevant local government, the president of the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan, and other relevant persons (herein after referred to as "the Head of the Relevant Administrative Organ" in Article 35 and Article 38, paragraph (2)) to provide materials, state an opinion, carry out an examination, analysis, or inspection to investigate the cause of an Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident, or otherwise cooperate as necessary." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、消費者事故等の発生又は消費者事故等による被害の拡大の防止を図るため必要があると認めるときは、関係都道府県知事又は関係市町村長に対し、消費者事故等に関して必要な報告を求めることができる。 art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-14/par-2 If the Prime Minister finds it necessary to do so in order to prevent an Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident from occurring or in order to prevent instances of harm from an Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident from increasing, the Prime Minister may ask the governor of the relevant prefecture or the mayor of the relevant municipality for the necessary reports on the Actual or Potential Consumer-Related Incident. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-14/par-1: 前条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-13/par-1 - art-14/par-1: 第三十五条 → 消費者安全法 第三十五条 (Article 35), art-35 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-35 - art-14/par-1: 第三十八条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第三十八条第二項 (Article 38, paragraph (2)), art-38/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-38/par-2 --- ## 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 14, paragraph (1) — 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