If it becomes unnecessary to keep a recording medium that was seized after transferring or having a person transfer electronic or magnetic records pursuant to the provisions of Article 211-4, and the person subject to the seizure is a different person from the owner, possessor, or keeper of the recording medium, a Commission official must deliver the recording medium to the person subject to the seizure or allow the person to copy the electronic or magnetic records.
The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to delivery or copying under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
If no request is filed for the delivery or copying under the provisions of paragraph (1) after six months have elapsed since the day of the public notice under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Commission official is not required to make the delivery or have the person make the copying.
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(Dispositions in Lieu of the Seizure of a Recording Medium Containing Electronic or Magnetic Records)
If the object to be seized is a recording medium containing electronic or magnetic records, a Commission official may make any of the following dispositions in lieu of the seizure of the recording…
差し押さえるべき物件が電磁的記録に係る記録媒体であるときは、委員会職員は、その差押えに代えて次に掲げる処分をすることができる。
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If it becomes unnecessary to keep a recording medium that was seized after transferring or having a person transfer electronic or magnetic records pursuant to the provisions of Article 211-4…
委員会職員は、第二百十一条の四の規定により電磁的記録を移転し、又は移転させた上差し押さえた記録媒体について留置の必要がなくなつた場合において、差押えを受けた者と当該記録媒体の所有者、所持者又は保管者とが異なるときは、当該差押えを受けた者に対し、当該記録媒体を交付し、又は当該電磁的記録の複写を許さなければならない。
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The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to delivery or copying under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
前条第二項の規定は、前項の規定による交付又は複写について準用する。
Open this provision(Return of Retained Objects)
If the Commission is unable to return a retained object, seized object, or object seized with an order to produce a copy of records referred to in the preceding paragraph because the address or…
委員会は、前項の領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について、その返還を受けるべき者の住所若しくは居所がわからないため、又はその他の事由によりこれを還付することができない場合においては、その旨を公告しなければならない。
Open this provisionelectronic or magnetic recordmachine translation
「電磁的記録」
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
Defined inArticle 13, paragraph (5)
Commission officialmachine translation
「委員会職員」
An official of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (証券取引等監視委員会), who may investigate criminal cases (犯則事件) under Article 210 and the articles that follow it.
Short name set inArticle 210, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter