# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第二十五条 (Article 25) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25. 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25)（調査等の委託） — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条（調査等の委託） — (Entrustment of Investigations or Evaluations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25 **第一項** 調査委員会は、事故等原因調査等を行うため必要があると認めるときは、当該事故等原因調査等に係る調査又は研究の実施に関する事務の一部を、独立行政法人通則法（平成十一年法律第百三号）第二条第一項に規定する独立行政法人、一般社団法人若しくは一般財団法人、事業者その他の民間の団体又は学識経験を有する者に委託することができる。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25/par-1 If the Investigation Commission finds it necessary to do so in order to implement an Investigation or Evaluation, it may entrust an incorporated administrative agency as provided in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 103 of 1999), a general incorporated association or general incorporated foundation, an Enterprise or other private-sector entity, or a person with the relevant knowledge and experience, with part of the administrative processes for implementing the investigation or research in an Investigation or Evaluation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により事務の委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあった者は、当該委託に係る事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25/par-2 It is prohibited for a person entrusted with administrative processes pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, its officer or personnel, or a person that has held one of these positions to divulge any confidential information learned in the course of the administrative processes entrusted thereto. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定により事務の委託を受けた者又はその役員若しくは職員であって当該委託に係る事務に従事するものは、刑法その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。 art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25/par-3 A person entrusted with administrative processes pursuant to paragraph (1), or the officer or personnel in charge of the administrative processes under entrustment, is deemed to be an official engaged in public services pursuant to laws and regulations, for the purpose of applying the Penal Code and other penal provisions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-1: 独立行政法人通則法（平成十一年法律第百三号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000103, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-25/par-2: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25/par-1 - art-25/par-3: 第一項 → 消費者安全法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第二十五条第二項（調査等の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25/par-2 - 消費者安全法 第二十五条第三項（調査等の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-25/par-3 - 消費者安全法 第五十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-53/par-1 --- ## 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