# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第五十二条 (Article 52)

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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: 第五十二条 (Article 52) — address `art-52`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-52
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-52
- Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it.
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### 第五十二条
<sup>art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-52</sup>

**第一項**  第四十条第二項又は第五項の規定による命令に違反した者は、一年以下の拘禁刑若しくは百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
<sup>art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-52/par-1</sup>
A person violating an order under Article 40, paragraph (2) or paragraph (5) is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, a fine of not more than one million yen, or both.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-52/par-1: 第四十条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第四十条第二項 (Article 40, paragraph (2)), art-40/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-40/par-2
- art-52/par-1: 第五項 → 消費者安全法 第四十条第五項 (Article 40, paragraph (5)), art-40/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-40/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-40/par-5

## Cited by

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

- 消費者安全法 第五十六条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-56/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-56/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
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch consumer-safety-act-20261101T192903-001, translated 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 219 — 消費者安全法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01
