# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23. 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（事故等原因調査） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（事故等原因調査） — (Investigations into the Cause or Source of an Actual or Potential Accident) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23 **第一項** 調査委員会は、生命身体事故等が発生した場合において、生命身体被害の発生又は拡大の防止（生命身体事故等による被害の拡大又は当該生命身体事故等と同種若しくは類似の生命身体事故等の発生の防止をいう。以下同じ。）を図るため当該生命身体事故等に係る事故等原因を究明することが必要であると認めるときは、事故等原因調査を行うものとする。ただし、当該生命身体事故等について、消費者安全の確保の見地から必要な事故等原因を究明することができると思料する他の行政機関等による調査等の結果を得た場合又は得ることが見込まれる場合においては、この限りでない。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-1 If the Investigation Commission finds it to be necessary to clarify the Cause or Source of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm in order to prevent instances of bodily harm from occurring or increasing (meaning to prevent instances of harm from an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm from increasing or to prevent the same or a similar type of Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm from occurring; hereinafter the same applies), it is to Investigate the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident; provided, however, that this does not apply if the necessary results have been or are expected to be obtained from an Investigation or Monitoring by Another Administrative Organ or Entity into an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm through which the Investigation Commission considers the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident can be clarified with a view to Ensuring Consumer Safety. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Investigation Commission finds it to be necessary to clarify the Cause or Source of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm in order to prevent instances of bodily harm from occurring or increasing (meaning to prevent instances of harm from an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm from increasing or to prevent the same or a similar type of Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm from occurring; hereinafter the same applies), it is to Investigate the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident; provided, however, that this does not apply if the necessary results have been or are expected to be obtained from an Investigation or Monitoring by Another Administrative Organ or Entity into an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm though which the Investigation Commission considers the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident can be clarified with a view to Ensuring Consumer Safety." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb **第二項** 調査委員会は、事故等原因調査を行うため必要な限度において、次に掲げる処分をすることができる。 art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2 The Investigation Commission may take the administrative measures set forth below to the extent that doing so is necessary to allow it to Investigate the Cause or Source of an actual or potential accident: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 事故等原因に関係があると認められる者（次号及び第三十条において「原因関係者」という。）、生命身体事故等に際し人命の救助に当たった者その他の生命身体事故等の関係者（以下「生命身体事故等関係者」という。）から報告を徴すること。 art-23/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-1 collecting reports from persons with a connection to an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm (hereinafter referred to as "Persons Involved in the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm"), which includes any person found to have a connection to the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident (referred to in the next item and Article 30 as a "Person Linked to the Cause or Source" of the actual or potential accident) and any person that attempts to save a person's life on the occasion of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "collecting reports from persons with a connection to an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm (hereinafter referred to as "Persons Involved in the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm"), which includes any person found to have a connection to the Cause or Source of the actual or potential accident (referred to in the next item and Article 30 as a "Person Linked to the Cause or Source" of the actual or potential accident) and any person that attempts to save a person's life on the occasion of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm";" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb **二** 生命身体事故等の現場、原因関係者の事務所その他の必要と認める場所に立ち入って、商品等、帳簿、書類その他の生命身体事故等に関係のある物件（以下「関係物件」という。）を検査し、又は生命身体事故等関係者に質問すること。 art-23/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-2 entering the scene of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, the office of a Person Linked to the Cause or Source thereof, or any other place it finds to be necessary; examining the good or product, books, documents, or other materials relevant to an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm (hereinafter referred to as a "Relevant Material"); and interrogating any Person Involved in the Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 生命身体事故等関係者に出頭を求めて質問すること。 art-23/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-3 asking a Person Involved in an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm to appear, and interrogating them; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 関係物件の所有者、所持者若しくは保管者に対しその提出を求め、又は提出物件を留め置くこと。 art-23/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-4 asking the owner, holder, or custodian of a Relevant Material to produce it, or taking custody of a material so produced; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 関係物件の所有者、所持者若しくは保管者に対しその保全を命じ、又はその移動を禁止すること。 art-23/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-5 ordering the owner, holder, or custodian of a Relevant Material to keep it safe or prohibiting such a person from relocating it; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 生命身体事故等の現場に、公務により立ち入る者及び調査委員会が支障がないと認める者以外の者が立ち入ることを禁止すること。 art-23/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-6 prohibiting entry into the site of an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm to persons other than those entering on official duty and those whose entry the Investigation Commission finds unproblematic. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 調査委員会は、必要があると認めるときは、委員長、委員又は専門委員に前項各号に掲げる処分をさせることができる。 art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-3 If the Investigation Commission finds it necessary to do so, it may have the chairperson, a member, or an expert member take the administrative measures set forth in one of the items of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前項の規定により第二項第二号に掲げる処分をする者は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、かつ、生命身体事故等関係者の請求があるときは、これを提示しなければならない。 art-23/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-4 A person taking an administrative measure set forth in paragraph (2), item (ii) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry identification and show it to the Person Involved in an Actual or Potential Accident Involving Bodily Harm, upon request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第二項又は第三項の規定による処分の権限は、犯罪捜査のために認められたものと解してはならない。 art-23/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-5 The authority to take an administrative measure under paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) must not be construed as having been granted for the purpose of a criminal investigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-2/item-1: 次号 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項第二号 (Article 23, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-23/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-2 - art-23/par-2/item-1: 第三十条 → 消費者安全法 第三十条 (Article 30), art-30 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-30 - art-23/par-3: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項 (Article 23, paragraph (2)), art-23/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2 - art-23/par-4: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第三項 (Article 23, paragraph (3)), art-23/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-3 - art-23/par-4: 第二項第二号 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項第二号 (Article 23, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-23/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-2 - art-23/par-5: 第二項 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項 (Article 23, paragraph (2)), art-23/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2 - art-23/par-5: 第三項 → 消費者安全法 第二十三条第三項 (Article 23, paragraph (3)), art-23/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-3 ## Cited by 14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第二十三条第二項第一号（事故等原因調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-2/item-1 - 消費者安全法 第二十三条第三項（事故等原因調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-3 - 消費者安全法 第二十三条第四項（事故等原因調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-4 - 消費者安全法 第二十三条第五項（事故等原因調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-23/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-23/par-5 - 消費者安全法 第二十四条第一項（他の行政機関等による調査等の結果の評価等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-24/par-1 - 消費者安全法 第二十七条第二項（内閣総理大臣の援助） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-27/par-2 - 消費者安全法 第二十七条第四項（内閣総理大臣の援助） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-27/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-27/par-4 - 消費者安全法 第二十七条第五項（内閣総理大臣の援助） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-27/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-27/par-5 - 消費者安全法 第三十七条第一項（不利益取扱いの禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-37/par-1 - 消費者安全法 第五十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-1 - 消費者安全法 第五十五条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-2 - 消費者安全法 第五十五条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-3 - 消費者安全法 第五十五条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-4 - 消費者安全法 第五十五条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-55/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-55/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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 23, 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 (消費者安全法), Article 23, paragraph (2), item (i) — 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