Article 10Erasure of Electronic or Magnetic Records Recorded on Seized Articles and Disposal of Seized Articles
第十条（押収物に記録された電磁的記録の消去及び押収物の廃棄）
A public prosecutor may, in the case where a seized article stored by the public prosecutor is an object listed in item (i), and that seized article records a covered electronic or magnetic record, take the measures listed in item (ii) in accordance with the procedures provided for in the following Section.
the following objects:
次に掲げる物
an object produced by an act listed in any item of Article 2, paragraph (1), or an object produced by the act of recording images that were subject to image transmission by an act listed in any item of Article 5, paragraph (1), or a copy of any of these;
an object on which is recorded a private sexual image record that constituted, or was used in, an act prescribed in Article 3, paragraphs (1) to (3) of the Act on the Prevention of Damage Caused by the Provision, etc. of Private Sexual Image Records, or a private sexual image record item that constituted, or was used in, that act, or a copy of any of these;
an object prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Regulation and Punishment of Acts Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children.
児童買春、児童ポルノに係る行為等の規制及び処罰並びに児童の保護等に関する法律第二条第三項に規定する物
the following measures:
次に掲げる措置
to erase all covered electronic or magnetic records recorded on that seized article;
当該押収物に記録されている対象電磁的記録を全て消去すること。
if it is found difficult to take the measure listed in (a) because the electronic or magnetic records recorded on that seized article are voluminous or for other reasons, so that the content of all of the electronic or magnetic records recorded on that seized article cannot be confirmed, to erase all of the electronic or magnetic records recorded on that seized article;
当該押収物に記録されている電磁的記録が大量であることその他の事由により当該押収物に記録されている全ての電磁的記録の内容を確認することができないため、イに掲げる措置をとることが困難であると認めるときは、当該押収物に記録されている電磁的記録を全て消去すること。
if it is found difficult to take the measures listed in (a) and (b) for technical or other reasons, to dispose of that seized article.
技術的理由その他の事由により、イ及びロに掲げる措置をとることが困難であると認めるときは、当該押収物を廃棄すること。
A public prosecutor may, in the case where a seized article stored by the public prosecutor that is listed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph does not record a covered electronic or magnetic record, dispose of that seized article in accordance with the procedures provided for in the following Section.