Article 13Withdrawal of Petition for Sender Identification Information Disclosure Order
第十三条(発信者情報開示命令の申立ての取下げ)
A petition for a sender identification information disclosure order may be withdrawn in whole or in part before a decision on the petition becomes final and binding; provided that, after any of the following decisions is made, withdrawal of the petition is invalid without the consent of the opposite party:
発信者情報開示命令の申立ては、当該申立てについての決定が確定するまで、その全部又は一部を取り下げることができる。ただし、当該申立ての取下げは、次に掲げる決定がされた後にあっては、相手方の同意を得なければ、その効力を生じない。
a decision on the petition;
当該申立てについての決定
an order under the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) where the case of a sender identification information disclosure order pertaining to the petition is the primary matter.
当該申立てに係る発信者情報開示命令事件を本案とする第十五条第一項の規定による命令
In the case that a petition for a sender identification information disclosure order is withdrawn, if the opposite party's consent is required for the withdrawal of the petition pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to the preceding paragraph, the court must notify the opposite party of the withdrawal of the petition; provided that, this does not apply if the petition is withdrawn orally on the date for proceedings of the case of the sender identification information disclosure order and if the opposite party appears on the required date.
発信者情報開示命令の申立ての取下げがあった場合において、前項ただし書の規定により当該申立ての取下げについて相手方の同意を要するときは、裁判所は、相手方に対し、当該申立ての取下げがあったことを通知しなければならない。ただし、当該申立ての取下げが発信者情報開示命令事件の手続の期日において口頭でされた場合において、相手方がその期日に出頭したときは、この限りでない。
If the opposite party does not state an objection within two weeks from the day on which that party receives a notice pursuant to the provisions in the main text of the preceding paragraph, the opposite party is deemed to have consented to the withdrawal of the petition under the formal notice. The same applies in the case prescribed in the proviso to the relevant paragraph if the opposite party does not state an objection within two weeks from the day on which the petition is withdrawn.
第十四条(発信者情報開示命令の申立てについての決定に対する異議の訴え)
A party who is dissatisfied with a decision on a petition for a sender identification information disclosure order (except for a decision to dismiss the petition on the ground that the petition is unlawful) may file an action to oppose the decision within an inalterable time frame of one month from the day on which the notice of the decision is received.
発信者情報開示命令の申立てについての決定(当該申立てを不適法として却下する決定を除く。)に不服がある当事者は、当該決定の告知を受けた日から一月の不変期間内に、異議の訴えを提起することができる。
An action prescribed in the preceding paragraph is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the court which made the decision prescribed in the paragraph.
In a judgment on the action prescribed in paragraph (1), the court approves, modifies or withdraws the decision prescribed in the paragraph except if the action is dismissed on the ground that the action is unlawful.
A judgment that approves or modifies the order prescribed in paragraph (1) and that orders the disclosure of sender identification information has the same effect in terms of compulsory execution as a judgment that orders payment.
If an action prescribed in paragraph (1) is not filed within the time frame prescribed in that paragraph or is dismissed, the decision prescribed in that paragraph with regard to the action has the same effect as the final and binding judgment.
In applying the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act to the case if the court makes the decision prescribed in paragraph (1), the phrase "an immediate appeal may be filed" in Article 59, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act is read as "an action of opposition may be filed".
裁判所が第一項に規定する決定をした場合における非訟事件手続法第五十九条第一項の規定の適用については、同項第二号中「即時抗告をする」とあるのは、「異議の訴えを提起する」とする。
Article 15Information Provision Order
第十五条(提供命令)
If the court at which a case of a sender identification information disclosure order on the merits is pending recognizes the necessity in order to prevent a situation which could lead to the inability to identify the sender of the violating information pertaining to the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order, then upon petition by the person who filed the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order (hereinafter referred to as the "petitioner" in this paragraph), the court may issue a ruling ordering the disclosure related service provider as the opposite party in the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order to take the following actions:
本案の発信者情報開示命令事件が係属する裁判所は、発信者情報開示命令の申立てに係る侵害情報の発信者を特定することができなくなることを防止するため必要があると認めるときは、当該発信者情報開示命令の申立てをした者(以下この項において「申立人」という。)の申立てにより、決定で、当該発信者情報開示命令の申立ての相手方である開示関係役務提供者に対し、次に掲げる事項を命ずることができる。
to provide the petitioner with information specified in (a) or (b), respectively, based on the cases in (a) or (b) below (information prescribed in (a) if the cases described in (a) are considered applicable) in writing or by electronic or magnetic means (which refers to the use of an electronic data processing system or other means of information and communications technology as specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; the same applies in the following item);
if sender identification information possessed by the disclosure related service provider (but limited to that pertaining to the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) makes it possible to identify the name and address of any other disclosure related service providers (excluding one who is recognized as the sender of the violating information; the same applies in (b)) (the name and address are referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (3) as "information such as names of other disclosure related service providers"):information such as names of any other disclosure related service providers;
if the disclosure related service provider does not possess sender identification information that makes it possible to identify any other disclosure related service providers pertaining to the violating information and that is specified as such by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, or if that disclosure related service provider is unable to make the identification as prescribed in (a) by using the sender identification information:notification to that effect.
to provide, in writing or by electronic or magnetic means, other disclosure related service providers with sender identification information possessed by that disclosure related service provider when the disclosure related service provider receives, in writing or by electronic or magnetic means, from the petitioner to whom information such as names of other disclosure related service providers has been provided pursuant to the order under the provisions of this paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "information provision order" in this Article; limited to the portion relating to the preceding item), notice to the effect that the petitioner filed a petition for a sender identification information disclosure order in respect of the violating information against that other disclosure related service provider as the opposite party.
If the opposite party against whom the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order prescribed in the preceding paragraph (limited to the portions other than those listed in the respective items) has been filed, is a specified telecommunications service provider prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1), and the party who filed the petition demands in the petition the disclosure of sender identification information including specified sender identification information, then the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply by replacing the phrase "that pertaining to" in the provisions of item (i), (a) in that paragraph with the relevant phrase in the right column in the following table, depending on the category set forth in the left column in the same table:
| If it is determined that Article 5, paragraph (1), item (iii) is applicable to the demand for disclosure of such specified sender identification information | specified sender identification information prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1) pertaining to |
| If it is determined that Article 5, paragraph (1), item (iii) is not applicable to the demand for disclosure of such specified sender identification information | sender identification information other than the specified sender identification information prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1) pertaining to |
If either of the following items becomes applicable, the information provision order (if the person to whom information such as names of other disclosure related service providers has been provided with regard to two or more other disclosure related service providers pursuant to the information provision order falls under the category of item (ii) because the relevant person does not give a notice prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii) to certain other disclosure related service providers, then only the portion of the information provision order pertaining to those other disclosure related service providers) is no longer effective.
次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、提供命令(提供命令により二以上の他の開示関係役務提供者の氏名等情報の提供を受けた者が、当該他の開示関係役務提供者のうちの一部の者について第一項第二号に規定する通知をしないことにより第二号に該当することとなるときは、当該一部の者に係る部分に限る。)は、その効力を失う。
when the case of a sender identification information disclosure order, which is the primary matter in respect of the information provision order, ends (or if an action prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is instituted against a decision prescribed in that paragraph for the case of a sender identification information disclosure order, when that lawsuit ends);
当該提供命令の本案である発信者情報開示命令事件(当該発信者情報開示命令事件についての前条第一項に規定する決定に対して同項に規定する訴えが提起されたときは、その訴訟)が終了したとき。
when the person to whom information such as names of other disclosure related service providers has been provided pursuant to the information provision order, fails to give a notice, prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii), to the disclosure related service provider against whom the relevant information provision order has been issued, within two months after the date of receipt of the provision.
当該提供命令により他の開示関係役務提供者の氏名等情報の提供を受けた者が、当該提供を受けた日から二月以内に、当該提供命令を受けた開示関係役務提供者に対し、第一項第二号に規定する通知をしなかったとき。
A petition for an information provision order may be withdrawn in whole or in part even after the information provision order is given.
提供命令の申立ては、当該提供命令があった後であっても、その全部又は一部を取り下げることができる。
The disclosure related service provider against whom an information provision order has been issued, may file an immediate appeal against the information provision order.
Article 16Deletion Prohibitory Order
第十六条(消去禁止命令)
If the court at which a case of a sender identification information disclosure order on the merits is pending, recognizes the necessity in order to prevent a situation which could lead to the inability to identify the sender of violating information pertaining to the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order, then upon petition by the person who filed the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order, the court may issue a ruling ordering that the disclosure related service provider as the opposite party against whom the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order was filed may not delete the sender identification information (limited to that relating to the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order) possessed by the disclosure related service provider until the relevant case of the sender identification information disclosure order ends (or if an action prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) is instituted against a decision prescribed in the paragraph for that case of a sender identification information disclosure order, until the lawsuit ends).
本案の発信者情報開示命令事件が係属する裁判所は、発信者情報開示命令の申立てに係る侵害情報の発信者を特定することができなくなることを防止するため必要があると認めるときは、当該発信者情報開示命令の申立てをした者の申立てにより、決定で、当該発信者情報開示命令の申立ての相手方である開示関係役務提供者に対し、当該発信者情報開示命令事件(当該発信者情報開示命令事件についての第十四条第一項に規定する決定に対して同項に規定する訴えが提起されたときは、その訴訟)が終了するまでの間、当該開示関係役務提供者が保有する発信者情報(当該発信者情報開示命令の申立てに係るものに限る。)を消去してはならない旨を命ずることができる。
A petition for the order issued pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "deletion prohibitory order") may be withdrawn in whole or in part even after the deletion prohibitory order is issued.
前項の規定による命令(以下この条において「消去禁止命令」という。)の申立ては、当該消去禁止命令があった後であっても、その全部又は一部を取り下げることができる。
The disclosure related service provider against whom a deletion prohibitory order has been issued may file an immediate appeal against the deletion prohibitory order.
Article 17Concealment of Domicile, Name, etc. of the Parties
第十七条(当事者に対する住所、氏名等の秘匿)
With regard to petitions and other statements in court proceedings relating to a case of a sender identification information disclosure order, the provisions of Part I, Chapter VIII of the Code of Civil Procedure (Act No. 109 of 1996) (excluding Article 133-2, paragraphs (5) and (6) and Article 133-3, paragraph (2)) apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, the phrase "party" in Article 133, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "party or interested party intervenor (meaning an interested party intervenor prescribed in Article 21, paragraph (5) of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act (Act No. 51 of 2011); the same applies in Article 133-4, paragraphs (1), (2) and (7))"; the phrase "case records, etc. (meaning case records or the records of a case pertaining to a petition for a disposition under Article 132-4, paragraph (1)" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "case of a sender identification information disclosure order (meaning a case of a sender identification information disclosure order prescribed in Article 2, item (xiii) of the Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications", and the phrase "), within" in that paragraph with "), within the record of the case"; the phrase "inspection of case records, etc. (meaning inspection of case records, inspection of non-electronic evidence collection disposition records, or inspection of electronic or magnetic evidence collection disposition records; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) with regard to" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "inspection or copying, or issuance of a transcript or extract, of"; the phrase "inspection of case records, etc. pertaining to" in Article 133-2, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "inspection or copying, or issuance of a transcript or extract, of"; the phrase "in the case records, etc." in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "in the case records of the case of a sender identification information disclosure order"; the phrase "inspection of case records, etc. pertaining to" in that paragraph and paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "inspection or copying, issuance of an authenticated copy, transcript or extract, or reproduction, of"; the phrase "written or recorded document or electronic or magnetic record" in Article 133-3, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "written document", the phrase "the document or electronic or magnetic record" with "the document", and the phrase "or electronic or magnetic record, or other similar document or electronic or magnetic record, inspection of case records, etc. pertaining to" with "or other similar document, inspection or copying, or issuance of a transcript or extract, of"; the phrase "person, case records, etc." in Article 133-4, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "party or interested party intervenor, or a third party who has made a prima facie showing of interest, case records of the case of a sender identification information disclosure order"; the phrase "party" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "party or interested party intervenor", the phrase "where case records, etc. are kept" with "where case records of the case of a sender identification information disclosure order are kept", and the phrase "inspection of case records, etc." with "inspection or copying, issuance of an authenticated copy, transcript or extract, or reproduction"; and the phrase "party" in paragraph (7) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "party or interested party intervenor".
発信者情報開示命令事件に関する裁判手続における申立てその他の申述については、民事訴訟法(平成八年法律第百九号)第一編第八章(第百三十三条の二第五項及び第六項並びに第百三十三条の三第二項を除く。)の規定を準用する。この場合において、同法第百三十三条第一項中「当事者」とあるのは「当事者又は利害関係参加人(非訟事件手続法(平成二十三年法律第五十一号)第二十一条第五項に規定する利害関係参加人をいう。第百三十三条の四第一項、第二項及び第七項において同じ。)」と、同条第三項中「訴訟記録等(訴訟記録又は第百三十二条の四第一項の処分の申立てに係る事件の記録」とあるのは「発信者情報開示命令事件(特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律第二条第十三号に規定する発信者情報開示命令事件」と、「)中」とあるのは「)の記録中」と、「について訴訟記録等の閲覧等(訴訟記録の閲覧等、非電磁的証拠収集処分記録の閲覧等又は電磁的証拠収集処分記録の閲覧等をいう。以下この章において同じ。)」とあるのは「の閲覧若しくは謄写又はその謄本若しくは抄本の交付」と、同法第百三十三条の二第一項中「に係る訴訟記録等の閲覧等」とあるのは「の閲覧若しくは謄写又はその謄本若しくは抄本の交付」と、同条第二項中「訴訟記録等中」とあるのは「発信者情報開示命令事件の記録中」と、同項及び同条第三項中「に係る訴訟記録等の閲覧等」とあるのは「の閲覧若しくは謄写、その正本、謄本若しくは抄本の交付又はその複製」と、同法第百三十三条の三第一項中「記載され、又は記録された書面又は電磁的記録」とあるのは「記載された書面」と、「当該書面又は電磁的記録」とあるのは「当該書面」と、「又は電磁的記録その他これに類する書面又は電磁的記録に係る訴訟記録等の閲覧等」とあるのは「その他これに類する書面の閲覧若しくは謄写又はその謄本若しくは抄本の交付」と、同法第百三十三条の四第一項中「者は、訴訟記録等」とあるのは「当事者若しくは利害関係参加人又は利害関係を疎明した第三者は、発信者情報開示命令事件の記録」と、同条第二項中「当事者」とあるのは「当事者又は利害関係参加人」と、「訴訟記録等の存する」とあるのは「発信者情報開示命令事件の記録の存する」と、「訴訟記録等の閲覧等」とあるのは「閲覧若しくは謄写、その正本、謄本若しくは抄本の交付又はその複製」と、同条第七項中「当事者」とあるのは「当事者若しくは利害関係参加人」と読み替えるものとする。
The proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) and the provisions of Articles 27, 40 and 42-2 of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act do not apply to court proceedings relating to a case of a sender identification information disclosure order.
発信者情報開示命令事件に関する裁判手続については、非訟事件手続法第二十二条第一項ただし書、第二十七条、第四十条及び第四十二条の二の規定は、適用しない。
Article 19Rules of the Supreme Court
第十九条(最高裁判所規則)
Beyond what is provided for in this Act, necessary particulars in connection with court proceedings relating to a case of a sender identification information disclosure order are prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court.
この法律に定めるもののほか、発信者情報開示命令事件に関する裁判手続に関し必要な事項は、最高裁判所規則で定める。