The Commission may provide the foreign authority enforcing foreign laws and regulations equivalent to this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "foreign enforcement authority" in this Article) with information that the Commission finds as contributing to their fulfilling the duties (limited to those equivalent to the Commission's duties prescribed in this Act; the same applies in the following paragraph).
Concerning the information provision under the preceding paragraph, appropriate measures must be taken so that the information is neither used for any purpose other than for the foreign enforcement authority's fulfilling their duties nor used for a foreign criminal case investigation (limited to the one conducted after the criminal facts subject to the investigation have been specified) or adjudication (hereinafter referred to as an "investigation or adjudication") without consent under the following paragraph.
When having received a request from the foreign enforcement authority, the Commission may consent that the information it provided pursuant to paragraph (1) be used for a foreign criminal case investigation or adjudication in connection with the request except cases falling under one of the following items:
a crime subject to the criminal case investigation or adjudication in connection with the request is a political crime, or the request is found to have been made for the purpose of conducting the investigation or adjudication into a political crime;
当該要請に係る刑事事件の捜査等の対象とされている犯罪が政治犯罪であるとき、又は当該要請が政治犯罪について捜査等を行う目的で行われたものと認められるとき。
an act relating to the crime that is subject to a criminal case investigation or adjudication connected with the request, if it were committed in Japan, is not to constitute a criminal offense according to the laws and regulations in Japan;
当該要請に係る刑事事件の捜査等の対象とされている犯罪に係る行為が日本国内において行われたとした場合において、その行為が日本国の法令によれば罪に当たるものでないとき。
there is no assurance that the requesting country will accept the same kind of request from Japan.
日本国が行う同種の要請に応ずる旨の要請国の保証がないとき。
If the Commission gives the consent referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Commission must acquire the Minister of Justice's confirmation that the relevant case does not fall under item (i) and item (ii) of that paragraph, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs' confirmation that the relevant case does not fall under item (iii) of that paragraph.