# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-31. 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: 食品衛生法 (Food Sanitation Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二百三十三号 - English title "Food Sanitation 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31) — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条 art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-31 **第一項** 登録検査機関の登録を受けようとする者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、実費を勘案して政令で定める額の手数料を納付して、厚生労働大臣に登録の申請をしなければならない。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-31/par-1 A person who seeks to obtain registration as a registered conformity assessment body must pay a fee specified by Cabinet Order in consideration of the actual costs and apply for registration with the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person who seeks to obtain registration as a registered conformity assessment body must pay a fee specified by Cabinet Order in consideration of the actual costs of inspections and apply for registration with the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第三十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-33/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第三十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-34/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第六十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Food Sanitation Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 食品衛生法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000233/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act (食品衛生法), Article 31, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02