If the article to be seized is a recording medium containing electronic or magnetic records, the person executing the seizure warrant may execute the measures prescribed in the following items in lieu of said seizure. The same applies to a seizure in court:
差し押さえるべき物が電磁的記録に係る記録媒体であるときは、差押状の執行をする者は、その差押えに代えて次に掲げる処分をすることができる。公判廷で差押えをする場合も、同様である。
the person may copy the electronic or magnetic records recorded on the recording medium which is to be seized onto some other recording medium, print them out or transfer them, and may then seize said other recording medium;
差し押さえるべき記録媒体に記録された電磁的記録を他の記録媒体に複写し、印刷し、又は移転した上、当該他の記録媒体を差し押さえること。
the person may have the person subject to the seizure copy the electronic or magnetic records recorded on the recording medium which is to be seized onto some other recording medium, print them out or transfer them, and may then seize said other recording medium.
差押えを受ける者に差し押さえるべき記録媒体に記録された電磁的記録を他の記録媒体に複写させ、印刷させ、又は移転させた上、当該他の記録媒体を差し押さえること。
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electronic or magnetic recordmachine translation
「電磁的記録」
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
Defined inArticle 99, paragraph (2)