# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第三条 (Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（基本理念） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（基本理念） — (Basic Principles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-3 **第一項** 消費者安全の確保に関する施策の推進は、専門的知見に基づき必要とされる措置の迅速かつ効率的な実施により、消費者事故等の発生及び消費者事故等による被害の拡大を防止することを旨として、行われなければならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-3/par-1 Policies for Ensuring Consumer Safety must be advanced through the prompt and efficient implementation of measures that are found to be necessary based on expert knowledge, with a view to preventing Actual and Potential Consumer-Related Incidents from occurring and preventing instances of harm from Actual and Potential Consumer-Related Incidents from increasing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 消費者安全の確保に関する施策の推進は、事業者による適正な事業活動の確保に配慮しつつ、消費者の需要の高度化及び多様化その他の社会経済情勢の変化に適確に対応し、消費者の利便の増進に寄与することを旨として、行われなければならない。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-3/par-2 Policies for Ensuring Consumer Safety must be advanced with a view to contributing to enhancing convenience for the Consumer while taking care to ensure appropriate business conduct by Enterprises and responding correctly to the growing sophistication and diversification of Consumer needs and other changes in socioeconomic conditions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 消費者安全の確保に関する施策の推進は、国及び地方公共団体の緊密な連携の下、地方公共団体の自主性及び自立性が十分に発揮されるように行われなければならない。 art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-3/par-3 Policies for Ensuring Consumer Safety must be advanced under the close cooperation of the national and local governments, in a way that allows local governments to fully exercise their autonomy and independence. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第四条第一項（国及び地方公共団体の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-4/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