If the court finds there to be grounds for a petition for an order to submit a document, it issues a ruling ordering the person in possession of the document to submit the document. In such a case, if the document contains any part that it is found unnecessary to examine or which cannot be found to be subject to the obligation to submit, the court may order the submission of the document excluding the part.
裁判所は、文書提出命令の申立てを理由があると認めるときは、決定で、文書の所持者に対し、その提出を命ずる。この場合において、文書に取り調べる必要がないと認める部分又は提出の義務があると認めることができない部分があるときは、その部分を除いて、提出を命ずることができる。
Before seeking to order a third party to submit a document, the court must hear the third party.
裁判所は、第三者に対して文書の提出を命じようとする場合には、その第三者を審尋しなければならない。
If a petition for an order to submit a document has been filed with regard to a document concerning confidential information connected with a public officer's duties on the grounds that the document falls under any of the categories stated in Article 220, item (iv), unless the petition is clearly groundless, the court must hear the opinion of the supervisory government agency concerned (in the case of a member of the House of Representatives or House of Councillors or a person who held the office, the relevant House; in the case of the Prime Minister or any other Minister of State or a person who held the office, the Cabinet) as to whether the document in question falls under the category of document stated in Article 220, item (iv), (b). In such a case, if the supervisory government agency states the opinion that the document falls under the category of document stated in Article 220, item (iv), (b), it must specify the reasons for this.
In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if that supervisory government agency has stated the opinion that that document falls under the category of document stated in Article 220, item (iv), (b) on the grounds that submission of that document would cause any of the following risks, the court may order the person in possession of the document to submit the document only if it cannot find sufficient reasonable grounds for that opinion:
a risk that the document will impair national security, harm a relationship of trust with a foreign country or international organization, or give rise to a disadvantage in negotiations with a foreign country or international organization;
国の安全が害されるおそれ、他国若しくは国際機関との信頼関係が損なわれるおそれ又は他国若しくは国際機関との交渉上不利益を被るおそれ
a risk that the document will hinder the prevention, suppression, or investigation of a crime, the continuation of prosecution, the enforcement of a sentence, or any other maintenance of public safety and order.
犯罪の予防、鎮圧又は捜査、公訴の維持、刑の執行その他の公共の安全と秩序の維持に支障を及ぼすおそれ
In a case as referred to in the first sentence of paragraph (3), if that supervisory government agency intends to state its opinion about a document that details particulars involving a technical or professional secret of a third party other than the person in possession of that document, it must hear the opinion of that third party in advance of doing so, unless it intends to state the opinion that the document falls under the category of document stated in Article 220, item (iv), (b).
If the court finds it to be necessary in order to determine which of the categories of documents stated in Article 220, item (iv), (a) through (d) the document that the petition for an order to submit a document concerns falls under, the court may have the person in possession of the document present the document. In such a case, no person may request the document so presented to be disclosed.
裁判所は、文書提出命令の申立てに係る文書が第二百二十条第四号イからニまでに掲げる文書のいずれかに該当するかどうかの判断をするため必要があると認めるときは、文書の所持者にその提示をさせることができる。この場合においては、何人も、その提示された文書の開示を求めることができない。
An immediate appeal may be filed against a ruling on a petition for an order to submit a document.
文書提出命令の申立てについての決定に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。
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