The Prime Minister may provide foreign authorities that enforce foreign laws and regulations equivalent to this Act (referred to as a "foreign enforcement authority" in the following paragraph and paragraph (3)) with information that is found to contribute to the performance of their duties (limited to those equivalent to the duties prescribed in this Act; the same applies in the following paragraph).
Appropriate measures must be taken for the provision of information under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, so that the information is not used for any purpose other than the performance of the duties of the foreign enforcement authority, and, is not used for the investigation of foreign criminal cases (limited to investigation conducted after the criminal facts subject to the investigation have been identified) or their trial (referred to in the following paragraph as "investigation, etc.") without the consent referred to in the following paragraph.
When requested by a foreign enforcement authority, the Prime Minister may give consent to the use of the information the Prime Minister has provided pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) for the investigation of a criminal case in the foreign country that made the request (referred to as the "requesting country" in item (iii)), excluding the cases falling under any of the following items:
if the crime that is the subject of the investigation, etc. of a criminal case related to the request is a political crime, or the request is found to have been made for conducting investigation, etc. of 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。
if the act for the crime that is the subject of the investigation, etc. of the criminal case related to the request were to be committed in Japan, and the act does not constitute a crime under the laws and regulations of Japan; and
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。
if there is no assurance from the requesting country that the country will respond to a similar request made by 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。
When giving the consent stated in the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must obtain confirmation from the Minister of Justice that the case does not fall under item (i) or (ii) of that paragraph, and confirmation from the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the case does not fall under item (iii) of that paragraph.