Trial examiners may enter the business office of a persons concerned in a case and other necessary place to inspect the books, documents, and any other articles, at the petition of the respondent or ex officio.
審判官は、被審人の申立てにより又は職権で、事件関係人の営業所その他必要な場所に立ち入り、帳簿書類その他の物件を検査することができる。
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「被審人」
In Section 2 of Chapter VI-2, on hearing procedures (審判手続), the person whom the Prime Minister proposes to order to pay an administrative monetary penalty (課徴金); the hearing procedure starts when a copy of the written decision to start it is served on that person.
Short name set inArticle 179, paragraph (3)· applies only in this section