When a police official finds it necessary to do so, they may enter a secondhand goods dealer's place of business or temporary store, the place where secondhand goods are kept, a secondhand goods market, or a place of an auction prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (1) (except in cases prescribed in paragraphs (3) and (4) of the same Article) during business hours, inspect secondhand goods and registers (including documents prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (1) in which the records prescribed in the same paragraph are recorded; the same applies in Article 35, item (iii)), and question relevant persons.
In cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, the police official must carry an identification card and present it to the relevant persons.
前項の場合においては、警察職員は、その身分を証明する証票を携帯し、関係者に、これを提示しなければならない。
When a Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, etc. finds it necessary to do so, they may ask a secondhand goods dealer, secondhand goods market owner, or secondhand goods auction broker to make the necessary report on the stolen property, etc.
警察本部長等は、必要があると認めるときは、古物商、古物市場主又は古物競りあつせん業者から盗品等に関し、必要な報告を求めることができる。
The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a person who has received the certification prescribed in Article 21-6, paragraph (1).
前項の規定は、第二十一条の六第一項の認定を受けた者について準用する。