# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第二十条 (Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-20. 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（委員の任期等） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（委員の任期等） — (Terms of Office of Members) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-20 **第一項** 委員の任期は、二年とする。ただし、補欠の委員の任期は、前任者の残任期間とする。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-20/par-1 A member's term of office is two years; provided, however, that the term of office of a member that has been substituted into office is the remaining term of the predecessor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 委員は、再任されることができる。 art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-20/par-2 Members may be reappointed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 臨時委員は、その者の任命に係る当該特別の事項に関する調査審議が終了したときは、解任されるものとする。 art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-20/par-3 A temporary member is to be dismissed at the end of the investigation and deliberation on the particular matter with regard to which that temporary member was appointed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 専門委員は、その者の任命に係る当該専門の事項に関する調査が終了したときは、解任されるものとする。 art-20/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-20/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-20/par-4 An expert member is to be dismissed at the end of the investigation into the specialized matter with regard to which that expert member was appointed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 委員、臨時委員及び専門委員は、非常勤とする。 art-20/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-20/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-20/par-5 Members, temporary members, and expert members serve under part-time contracts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Sources - 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 — 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