# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第六十三条 (Article 63) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63. 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: 第六十三条 (Article 63) — address `art-63` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条 art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63 **第一項** 食中毒患者等を診断し、又はその死体を検案した医師は、直ちに最寄りの保健所長にその旨を届け出なければならない。 art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-1 A physician who has diagnosed a patient with food poisoning, etc., or has examined the corpse of a patient with food poisoning, etc. must immediately notify the director of the nearest public health center to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A physician who has diagnosed a patient of food poisoning, etc., or has examined the corpse of a patient of food poisoning must immediately notify the director of the nearest public health center to that effect." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第二項** 保健所長は、前項の届出を受けたときその他食中毒患者等が発生していると認めるときは、速やかに都道府県知事等に報告するとともに、政令で定めるところにより、調査しなければならない。 art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-2 When the director of a public health center has received a notification referred to in the preceding paragraph, or finds that patients with food poisoning, etc. have been found, the director must promptly make a report to a prefectural governor, etc., and conduct an investigation, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 都道府県知事等は、前項の規定により保健所長より報告を受けた場合であつて、食中毒患者等が厚生労働省令で定める数以上発生し、又は発生するおそれがあると認めるときその他厚生労働省令で定めるときは、直ちに、厚生労働大臣に報告しなければならない。 art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-3 When a prefectural governor, etc. has received a report from the director of a public health center pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and finds that the number of patients with food poisoning, etc. who have been found is equal to or higher than the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, it is likely that such a situation will occur, or in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the prefectural governor, etc. must immediately make a report to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a prefectural governor, etc. has received a report from the director of a public health center pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and finds that the number of patients with food poisoning, etc. who have been found is higher than the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, it is likely that such a situation will occur, or in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the prefectural governor, etc. must immediately make a report to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第四項** 保健所長は、第二項の規定による調査を行つたときは、政令で定めるところにより、都道府県知事等に報告しなければならない。 art-63/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-4 When the director of a public health center has conducted an investigation under the provisions of paragraph (2), the director must make a report to a prefectural governor, etc. pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the director of public a health center has conducted an investigation under the provisions of paragraph (2), the director must make a report to a prefectural governor, etc. pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第五項** 都道府県知事等は、前項の規定による報告を受けたときは、政令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣に報告しなければならない。 art-63/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-5 When a prefectural governor, etc. has received a report under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the prefectural governor, etc. must make a report to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-63/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第六十三条第一項 (Article 63, paragraph (1)), art-63/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-1 - art-63/par-3: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第六十三条第二項 (Article 63, paragraph (2)), art-63/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-2 - art-63/par-4: 第二項 → 食品衛生法 第六十三条第二項 (Article 63, paragraph (2)), art-63/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-2 - art-63/par-5: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第六十三条第四項 (Article 63, paragraph (4)), art-63/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-4 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第六十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第六十三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第六十三条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-4 - 食品衛生法 第六十三条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-63/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-63/par-5 - 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 第七十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-73/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第八十三条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-83/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-83/par-1/item-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 63, 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 (食品衛生法), Article 63, paragraph (3) — 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 (食品衛生法), Article 63, paragraph (4) — 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