# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第八条の二 (Article 8-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2. 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: 第八条の二 (Article 8-2)（消費生活相談等の事務の委託） — address `art-8-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2 - 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. --- ### 第八条の二（消費生活相談等の事務の委託） — (Entrustment of Consumer Affairs Consultations and Other Administrative Processes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2 **第一項** 都道府県は、前条第一項第一号に掲げる事務（市町村相互間の連絡調整に係る部分を除く。）及び同項第二号から第五号までに掲げる事務の一部を、その事務を適切に実施することができるものとして内閣府令で定める基準に適合する者に委託することができる。 art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-1 Each prefectural government may entrust part of the administrative processes set forth in paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article (excluding the coordination of communication among municipal governments) and the administrative processes set forth in items (ii) to (v) of that paragraph to those who satisfy the standards provided by Cabinet Office Order as those who can carry out the administrative processes appropriately. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 市町村は、前条第二項各号に掲げる事務の一部を、その事務を適切に実施することができるものとして内閣府令で定める基準に適合する者に委託することができる。 art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-2 Each municipal government may entrust part of the administrative processes set forth in the items of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article to those who satisfy the standards provided by Cabinet Office Order as those who can carry out the administrative processes appropriately. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定により事務の委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあった者は、当該委託に係る事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-8-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-3 Any of those who have been entrusted with any administrative processes pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs, its officer or personnel, and those who formerly held those positions must not divulge any confidential information learned in the course of the administrative processes entrusted thereto. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Any of those who have been entrusted with any administrative processes pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs, its officer or personnel, and those who engaged in the administrative processes must not divulge any confidential information learned in the course of the administrative processes entrusted thereto." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb --- ## Cites - art-8-2/par-1: 前条第一項第一号 → 消費者安全法 第八条第一項第一号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-8/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8/par-1/item-1 - art-8-2/par-1: 同項第二号から第五号まで → 消費者安全法 第八条第一項第二号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-8/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8/par-1/item-2 - art-8-2/par-1: 同項第二号から第五号まで → 消費者安全法 第八条第一項第三号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-8/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8/par-1/item-3 - art-8-2/par-1: 同項第二号から第五号まで → 消費者安全法 第八条第一項第四号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-8/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8/par-1/item-4 - art-8-2/par-1: 同項第二号から第五号まで → 消費者安全法 第八条第一項第五号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-8/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8/par-1/item-5 - art-8-2/par-2: 前条第二項 → 消費者安全法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8/par-2 - art-8-2/par-3: 前二項 → 消費者安全法 第八条の二第一項 (Article 8-2, paragraph (1)), art-8-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-1 - art-8-2/par-3: 前二項 → 消費者安全法 第八条の二第二項 (Article 8-2, paragraph (2)), art-8-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第八条の二第三項（消費生活相談等の事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-8-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-8-2/par-3 - 消費者安全法 第五十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-safety-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-53/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 8-2, paragraph (3) — 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