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Article 147

第百四十七条

Changes on a date not yet set (Act No. 46 of 2026)

Any person may refuse to give testimony when there is a concern that such testimony may result in criminal prosecution or conviction against:

何人も、左に掲げる者が刑事訴追を受け、又は有罪判決を受ける虞のある証言を拒むことができる。

said person's spouse, blood relatives within the third degree of kinship or relatives by affinity within the second degree of kinship or a person who formerly had such relationship with said person;

自己の配偶者、三親等内の血族若しくは二親等内の姻族又は自己とこれらの親族関係があつた者

Changes on a date not yet set (Act No. 46 of 2026)

said person's guardian, the supervisor of said person's guardian or said person's curator;

自己の後見人、後見監督人又は保佐人

Changes on a date not yet set (Act No. 46 of 2026)

a person for whom said person is a guardian, supervisor of a guardian or a curator.

自己を後見人、後見監督人又は保佐人とする者

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