# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33)

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- 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（意見の陳述） — address `art-33`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-33
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-33
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### 第三十三条（意見の陳述） — (Statement of Opinions)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-33</sup>

  **第一項**  調査委員会は、消費者安全の確保の見地から必要があると認めるときは、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のため講ずべき施策又は措置について内閣総理大臣又は関係行政機関の長に意見を述べることができる。
  <sup>art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-33/par-1</sup>
  If the Investigation Commission finds it necessary to do so with a view to Ensuring Consumer Safety, it may state an opinion to the Prime Minister or to the head of the relevant administrative organ with regard to the policies that should be created or the measures that should be taken 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.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 消費者安全法 第十六条第一項第一号（所掌事務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-16/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-16/par-1/item-1

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## 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
