①An immigration control officer may, if it is necessary for conducting an investigation into violations, carry out an official inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order (meaning ordering a person who keeps electronic or magnetic records or any other person who has the authority to use electronic or magnetic records to record the necessary electronic or magnetic records onto a recording medium or print them out, and then seizing the recording medium; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) with a permit issued in advance by a judge of the district court or summary court with jurisdiction over the location of the office to which the officer belongs.

②If the object to be seized is a computer, the electronic or magnetic records may be copied onto the computer or another recording medium from a recording medium which is connected to the computer via a telecommunications line and which, under the circumstances, can be reasonably found to be used to store electronic or magnetic records created or modified using the computer or electronic or magnetic records that are to be modifiable or erasable using the computer, and the computer or the other recording medium may then be seized.

③In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, in cases of urgency, the immigration control officer may take the actions set forth in the preceding two paragraphs with a permit issued in advance by a judge of the district court or summary court with jurisdiction over the location of the object or place subject to official inspection, the body, object or place subject to search, the object subject to seizure, or the person to be ordered to record or print out electronic or magnetic records.

④When requesting the permit set forth in paragraph (1) or the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "permit" in this Section, except in Article 37-5, paragraphs (4) and (5)), the immigration control officer must attach materials giving grounds to consider that the suspect falls under any of the items of Article 24 and the materials specified in the following items in accordance with the categories of cases set forth in those items:

⑤When the request set forth in the preceding paragraph has been made, the judge of the district court or summary court must issue to the immigration control officer a permit bearing the judge's name and seal which states the name of the suspect, the object or place subject to official inspection, the body, object or place subject to search, the object to be seized, or the electronic or magnetic records to be recorded or printed out and the person to be ordered to record or print them out, as well as the official title and name of the requesting person, the validity period, the fact that execution may not be commenced after the validity period has passed and that the permit must then be returned, the date of issuance and the name of the court.

⑥In the case referred to in paragraph (2), the permit must state, in addition to the particulars prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the scope of the recording media connected to the computer to be seized via a telecommunications line from which the electronic or magnetic records are to be copied.

⑦An immigration control officer may deliver the permit to another immigration control officer and have them carry out the official inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order.