If the court at which a case of a sender identification information disclosure order on the merits is pending recognizes the necessity in order to prevent a situation which could lead to the inability to identify the sender of the violating information pertaining to the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order, then upon petition by the person who filed the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order (hereinafter referred to as the "petitioner" in this paragraph), the court may issue a ruling ordering the disclosure related service provider as the opposite party in the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order to take the following actions:
本案の発信者情報開示命令事件が係属する裁判所は、発信者情報開示命令の申立てに係る侵害情報の発信者を特定することができなくなることを防止するため必要があると認めるときは、当該発信者情報開示命令の申立てをした者（以下この項において「申立人」という。）の申立てにより、決定で、当該発信者情報開示命令の申立ての相手方である開示関係役務提供者に対し、次に掲げる事項を命ずることができる。
to provide the petitioner with information specified in (a) or (b), respectively, based on the cases in (a) or (b) below (information prescribed in (a) if the cases described in (a) are considered applicable) in writing or by electronic or magnetic means (which refers to the use of an electronic data processing system or other means of information and communications technology as specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; the same applies in the following item);
if sender identification information possessed by the disclosure related service provider (but limited to that pertaining to the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) makes it possible to identify the name and address of any other disclosure related service providers (excluding one who is recognized as the sender of the violating information; the same applies in (b)) (the name and address are referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (3) as "information such as names of other disclosure related service providers"):information such as names of any other disclosure related service providers;
if the disclosure related service provider does not possess sender identification information that makes it possible to identify any other disclosure related service providers pertaining to the violating information and that is specified as such by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, or if that disclosure related service provider is unable to make the identification as prescribed in (a) by using the sender identification information:notification to that effect.
to provide, in writing or by electronic or magnetic means, other disclosure related service providers with sender identification information possessed by that disclosure related service provider when the disclosure related service provider receives, in writing or by electronic or magnetic means, from the petitioner to whom information such as names of other disclosure related service providers has been provided pursuant to the order under the provisions of this paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "information provision order" in this Article; limited to the portion relating to the preceding item), notice to the effect that the petitioner filed a petition for a sender identification information disclosure order in respect of the violating information against that other disclosure related service provider as the opposite party.
If the opposite party against whom the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order prescribed in the preceding paragraph (limited to the portions other than those listed in the respective items) has been filed, is a specified telecommunications service provider prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1), and the party who filed the petition demands in the petition the disclosure of sender identification information including specified sender identification information, then the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply by replacing the phrase "that pertaining to" in the provisions of item (i), (a) in that paragraph with the relevant phrase in the right column in the following table, depending on the category set forth in the left column in the same table:
| If it is determined that Article 5, paragraph (1), item (iii) is applicable to the demand for disclosure of such specified sender identification information | specified sender identification information prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1) pertaining to |
| If it is determined that Article 5, paragraph (1), item (iii) is not applicable to the demand for disclosure of such specified sender identification information | sender identification information other than the specified sender identification information prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1) pertaining to |
If either of the following items becomes applicable, the information provision order (if the person to whom information such as names of other disclosure related service providers has been provided with regard to two or more other disclosure related service providers pursuant to the information provision order falls under the category of item (ii) because the relevant person does not give a notice prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii) to certain other disclosure related service providers, then only the portion of the information provision order pertaining to those other disclosure related service providers) is no longer effective.
次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、提供命令（提供命令により二以上の他の開示関係役務提供者の氏名等情報の提供を受けた者が、当該他の開示関係役務提供者のうちの一部の者について第一項第二号に規定する通知をしないことにより第二号に該当することとなるときは、当該一部の者に係る部分に限る。）は、その効力を失う。
when the case of a sender identification information disclosure order, which is the primary matter in respect of the information provision order, ends (or if an action prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is instituted against a decision prescribed in that paragraph for the case of a sender identification information disclosure order, when that lawsuit ends);
当該提供命令の本案である発信者情報開示命令事件（当該発信者情報開示命令事件についての前条第一項に規定する決定に対して同項に規定する訴えが提起されたときは、その訴訟）が終了したとき。
when the person to whom information such as names of other disclosure related service providers has been provided pursuant to the information provision order, fails to give a notice, prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii), to the disclosure related service provider against whom the relevant information provision order has been issued, within two months after the date of receipt of the provision.
当該提供命令により他の開示関係役務提供者の氏名等情報の提供を受けた者が、当該提供を受けた日から二月以内に、当該提供命令を受けた開示関係役務提供者に対し、第一項第二号に規定する通知をしなかったとき。
A petition for an information provision order may be withdrawn in whole or in part even after the information provision order is given.
提供命令の申立ては、当該提供命令があった後であっても、その全部又は一部を取り下げることができる。
The disclosure related service provider against whom an information provision order has been issued, may file an immediate appeal against the information provision order.