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Secondhand Goods Business Act

古物営業法(こぶつえいぎょうほう)

Who needs a permit to deal in secondhand goods (古物) as a business, and what dealers must do — check who they buy from, keep records, report goods they suspect — so that stolen goods are not traded and are found quickly.

Read the textSecondhand goodsDealer's permitIdentity checksTransaction records

Text in force since

48 articles44 defined terms

Amendments
  • 203Ministry of Justice
  • 77machine translation
  • 91not translated

Act on Prohibition of Unauthorized Computer Access

不正アクセス行為の禁止等に関する法律(ふせいあくせすこういのきんしとうにかんするほうりつ)

Makes it a crime to get into a computer over a network by entering someone else's identification code or by getting around its access control, bans obtaining, handing over and storing other people's codes and tricking people into entering theirs, and has the prefectural public safety commission (都道府県公安委員会) help computer operators who have been broken into.

Read the textWhat counts as unauthorized accessIdentification codesObtaining someone else's identification codeHanding over someone else's identification code

Text in force since

14 articles11 defined terms

Amendments
  • 37Ministry of Justice
  • 24machine translation
  • 3not translated