# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第四十四条 (Article 44) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44. 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: 第四十四条 (Article 44)（都道府県知事による要請） — address `art-44` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44 - 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. --- ### 第四十四条（都道府県知事による要請） — (Requests from the Prefectural Governors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、当該都道府県の区域内における消費者被害の発生又は拡大の防止を図るため必要があると認めるときは、内閣総理大臣に対し、消費者安全の確保に関し必要な措置の実施を要請することができる。この場合においては、当該要請に係る措置の内容及びその理由を記載した書面を添えなければならない。 art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-1 If a prefectural governor finds it necessary to do so in order to prevent Instances of Harm to Consumers from Occurring or Increasing within the prefectural territory, the governor may request that the Prime Minister implement the necessary measures to Ensure Consumer Safety. To do so, the prefectural governor must include a document that gives the details of and reasons for the measures being requested. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、前項の規定による要請（以下この条において「措置要請」という。）を受けた場合において、消費者被害の発生又は拡大の防止を図るために実施し得る他の法律の規定に基づく措置があるときは、当該措置の実施に関する事務を所掌する大臣に同項の書面を回付しなければならない。 art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-2 If the Prime Minister receives a request under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "Request for Measures" in this Article) but there are measures based on the provisions of any other law that can be taken to prevent Instances of Harm to Consumers from Occurring or Increasing, the Prime Minister must pass along the document referred to in the preceding paragraph to the minister with jurisdiction over the administrative processes involved in the implementation of those measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定による回付を受けた大臣は、内閣総理大臣に対し、当該措置要請に係る措置の内容の全部又は一部を実現することとなる措置を実施することとするときはその旨を、当該措置要請に係る措置の内容の全部又は一部を実現することとなる措置を実施する必要がないと認めるときはその旨及びその理由を、遅滞なく、通知しなければならない。 art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-3 The minister to whom a document is passed along pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must notify the Prime Minister without delay upon deciding to implement measures that put into effect all or part of the substance of the measures requested in the Request for Measures; and must notify the Prime Minister without delay and give the reasons therefor upon deciding that it is unnecessary to implement measures that put into effect all or part of the substance of the measures requested in the Request for Measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 内閣総理大臣は、前項の規定による通知を受けたときは、その内容を、遅滞なく、当該措置要請をした都道府県知事に通知しなければならない。 art-44/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-4 On being notified pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must notify the prefectural governor making the Request for Measures of the substance of the notification without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-44/par-2: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-1 - art-44/par-2: この条 → 消費者安全法 第四十四条 (Article 44), art-44 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44 - art-44/par-3: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第四十四条第二項 (Article 44, paragraph (2)), art-44/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-2 - art-44/par-4: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第四十四条第三項 (Article 44, paragraph (3)), art-44/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第四十四条第二項（都道府県知事による要請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-2 - 消費者安全法 第四十四条第三項（都道府県知事による要請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-3 - 消費者安全法 第四十四条第四項（都道府県知事による要請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-44/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-44/par-4 --- ## 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