A police officer may, when necessary for conducting an investigation of a case concerning a juvenile prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (ii), conduct seizure (including an order to provide electronic or magnetic records prescribed in Article 102-2, paragraph (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Act No. 131 of 1948) (limited to an order for provision by the method prescribed in item (i), (a) of that paragraph); the same applies in the following paragraph and Article 15), search, an order to provide electronic or magnetic records prescribed in Article 102-2, paragraph (1) of that Code (limited to an order for provision by the method prescribed in (b) of that item; referred to simply as the "order to provide electronic or magnetic records" in the following paragraph and Article 15), inspection, or request for an expert examination.
The provisions in the Code of Criminal Procedure for seizure, search, order to provide electronic or magnetic records, inspection, and request for an expert examination to be conducted by judicial police officer (excluding Article 224 of that Code) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "judicial police officer" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "police officer who is a judicial police officer" and the term "judicial constable" with "police officer who is a judicial constable"; in Article 499, paragraph (1) of that Code, the term "public prosecutor" is deemed to be replaced with "Superintendent General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Chief of Prefectural Police Headquarters, or Police Station Chief" and the term "Cabinet Order" with "the Rules of the National Public Safety Commission"; and in paragraph (3) of that Article, the term "national treasury" is deemed to be replaced with "prefecture where the relevant prefectural police or police station is located".
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juvenile
「少年」
In this Act, a person under 20 years of age.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
order to provide electronic or magnetic recordsmachine translation
「電磁的記録提供命令」
In Article 6-5, paragraph (2) and Article 15, an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (電磁的記録) under Article 102-2, paragraph (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure — an order to provide the records needed by a method it specifies — counting only one that has them recorded or moved, over a telecommunications line, onto a recording medium managed by the person making the order; a police officer investigating the case of a juvenile under 14 who has done an act that breaks a criminal law may make one.
Short name set inArticle 6-5, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 6-5, paragraph (2); and Article 15
chief of a police station
警察署長
The head of a police station (警察署). The Police Act (警察法) divides each prefecture's area into districts, each served by a police station, and places a chief in every station (Police Act, Article 53, paragraphs (1) and (2)). Under the direction and supervision of the officers above the station in the prefectural police — the Superintendent General (警視総監) of Tokyo's police, the chief of a prefectural police headquarters (警察本部長), or, in Hokkaido, a district headquarters chief (方面本部長), among others — the chief handles police work within the station's district and directs and supervises the station's police officials (Article 53, paragraph (3); Articles 48 and 51). Under the Road Traffic Act, a person who means to work on a road, put up a structure or a fixed stall on it, or use it in another way the prefectural public safety commission (公安委員会) has listed as greatly affecting traffic, needs the permission of the chief of the police station for that place (Road Traffic Act, Article 77, paragraph (1)). Under the Lost Property Act, a finder must promptly return a found item to its owner or hand it in to a police station chief, and must hand in items that are illegal to possess or appear to have been held by a criminal (Lost Property Act, Article 4, paragraph (1)); something found inside a facility such as a station or shop goes to the facility's operator instead (Article 4, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Police Act, Arts. 48, 51, 53, Road Traffic Act, Art. 77 and Lost Property Act, Art. 4 as a reference.
public prosecutor
検察官
The official who brings a prosecution (公訴) for a crime before a court (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 247), and who may decide not to prosecute where, in view of the offender's character, age and circumstances, the gravity and circumstances of the offence and what happened after it, prosecution is not needed (Article 248). In criminal cases a public prosecutor asks the court to apply the law correctly and oversees the carrying out of its judgments; and, as the representative of the public interest, a public prosecutor also does the work other laws and regulations assign to a public prosecutor, which is not limited to criminal cases (Public Prosecutors Office Act, Article 4). A public prosecutor may investigate any crime (Article 6, paragraph (1)). Public prosecutors work through the public prosecutors offices (検察庁): the Supreme, High, District and Local Public Prosecutors Offices (Article 1).
Written by AI using Code of Criminal Procedure, Arts. 247, 248 and Public Prosecutors Office Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6 as a reference.