# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第六十一条 (Article 61) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-61. 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: 第六十一条 (Article 61) — address `art-61` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-61 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-61 - 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. --- ### 第六十一条 art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-61 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、営業者がその営業の施設につき第五十四条の規定による基準に違反した場合においては、その施設の整備改善を命じ、又は第五十五条第一項の許可を取り消し、若しくはその営業の全部若しくは一部を禁止し、若しくは期間を定めて停止することができる。 art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-61/par-1 When a business operator violates the criteria under the provisions of Article 54 for their business facilities, a prefectural governor may order the business operator to develop and improve the facilities, revoke the approval referred to in Article 55, paragraph (1), prohibit the business in whole or in part, or suspend the business by specifying a period. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a business operator violates a criteria under the provisions of Article 54 for their business facilities, a prefectural governor may order the business operator to develop and improve the facilities, revoke the approval referred to in Article 55, paragraph (1), prohibit the business in whole or in part, or suspend the business by specifying a period." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb --- ## Cites - art-61/par-1: 第五十四条 → 食品衛生法 第五十四条 (Article 54), art-54 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-54 - art-61/par-1: 第五十五条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-55/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第五十五条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-55/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-55/par-2/item-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 - 食品衛生法 第六十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第七十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-76/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第八十三条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-83/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-83/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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 61, 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