# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-48. 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（事務の区分） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（事務の区分） — (Classification of Administrative Processes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-48 **第一項** 前条第二項の規定により地方公共団体が処理することとされている事務は、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-48/par-1 Any administrative process that, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, it has been decided the local government will handle is classified as an item (i) statutorily entrusted process as provided in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Any administrative process that, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, it has been decided the local government will handle is classified as an item (i) statutorily entrusted processes as provided in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: 前条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-47/par-2 - art-48/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二条第九項第一号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二条第九項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i)), art-2/par-9/item-1 — not held in this collection --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Consumer Safety Act, written 2026-11-02 - 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 (消費者安全法), Article 48, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), 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