①If it is necessary for conducting an investigation into violations, an immigration control officer may commission a person with relevant knowledge and experience to conduct an expert examination of retained objects, seized objects or objects seized with a recording order, or may commission interpretation or translation.

②A person who has been commissioned to conduct an expert examination pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (referred to as an "expert" in paragraphs (4) and (5)) may destroy an object pertaining to the expert examination with permission from a judge of the district court or summary court with jurisdiction over the location of the office to which the immigration control officer set forth in the preceding paragraph belongs.

③The request for the permission set forth in the preceding paragraph must be made by an immigration control officer.

④If a request as set forth in the preceding paragraph is made and the judge finds the request to be reasonable, the judge must issue a permit stating the name of the suspect, the object to be destroyed, the name of the expert, the title and name of the person making the request, the validity period, a statement that the permit may not be executed after the expiration of the validity period and must be returned, the date of issuance and the name of the court, with the name and seal of the judge, and deliver it to the immigration control officer.

⑤The expert must show the permit set forth in the preceding paragraph to the person subject to the disposition set forth in paragraph (2).