# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-42. 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（回収等の命令） — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条（回収等の命令） — (Ordering a Recall) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-42 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、事業者が前条第一項の規定による禁止又は制限に違反した場合においては、当該事業者に対し、禁止又は制限に違反して譲渡し、又は引き渡した商品又は製品の回収を図ることその他当該商品等による重大生命身体被害の発生又は拡大を防止するため必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-42/par-1 If an Enterprise violates a prohibition or restriction under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the Prime Minister may order the Enterprise to recall the goods or products it has transferred or delivered in violation of the prohibition or restriction, and to take any other measures that are necessary to prevent the relevant good or product from causing Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-42/par-1: 前条第一項 → 消費者安全法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第五十一条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-51/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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