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Article 52

第五十二条

If an official of a national government organ, local government agency, or the Agency, or an officer or an official of an incorporated administrative agency, etc. or a local incorporated administrative agency (including a consular officer who is not any of these persons), in an abuse of authority, collects documents, pictures or electric or magnetic records (meaning a record created in electronic form, magnetic form, or any other form that cannot be perceived by human senses) containing Specific Personal Information classified as individual secret for an exclusive purpose of using it in something other than their work, said person is punished by imprisonment for two years or less or by a fine of one million yen or less.

国の機関、地方公共団体の機関若しくは機構の職員又は独立行政法人等若しくは地方独立行政法人の役員若しくは職員(領事官であってこれらの者以外の者を含む。)が、その職権を濫用して、専らその職務の用以外の用に供する目的で個人の秘密に属する特定個人情報が記録された文書、図画又は電磁的記録(電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られる記録をいう。)を収集したときは、二年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。

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