Article 51-3Asking Others to Handle Administrative Functions Involved in Moving and Storing Vehicles
第五十一条の三（車両移動保管関係事務の委託）
The chief of a police station may ask a corporation that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to handle all or part of the administrative functions involved in moving and storing vehicles (including their loads; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) pursuant to Article 51, paragraphs (5) and (6) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (22) of that Article) (such functions exclude the decision to move, return, sell, or dispose of a vehicle, the issuance of orders under paragraph (16) of that Article, measures to collect arrears, and other functions that Cabinet Order prescribes).
It is prohibited for the current or former officer or employee of a corporation that has been asked to handle administrative processes by the chief of the police station pursuant to the preceding paragraph to divulge confidential information learned in connection with those processes.
前項の規定により警察署長から事務の委託を受けた法人の役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、当該事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。