# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第五十七条 (Article 57) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-57. 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: 第五十七条 (Article 57) — address `art-57` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-57 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-57 - 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. --- ### 第五十七条 art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-57 **第一項** 第十一条の十七第一項の規定に違反して財務諸表等を備えて置かず、財務諸表等に記載すべき事項を記載せず、若しくは虚偽の記載をし、又は正当な理由がないのに同条第二項各号の規定による請求を拒んだ者は、二十万円以下の過料に処する。 art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-57/par-1 A person failing to prepare and store Financial Statements, etc., violating the provisions of Article 11-17, paragraph (1) or failing to write necessary particulars in Financial Statements, etc.; writing false contents; or refusing the request pursuant to the items of paragraph (2) of that Article without a legitimate reason is subject to an administrative penalty of not more than 200,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person failing to prepare and store Financial Statements, etc., violating the provisions of Article 11-17, paragraph (1) or write necessary particulars in Financial Statements, etc.; writing false contents; or refusing the request pursuant to the items of paragraph (2) of the Article without a legitimate reason is subject to an administrative penalty of not more than 200,000 yen." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb --- ## Cites - art-57/par-1: 第十一条の十七第一項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の十七第一項 (Article 11-17, paragraph (1)), art-11-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-17/par-1 - art-57/par-1: 同条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第十一条の十七第二項 (Article 11-17, paragraph (2)), art-11-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-17/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第十一条の十七第一項（財務諸表等の備付け及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-11-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-11-17/par-1 --- ## 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 57, 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