# 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 / Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications — 第十六条 (Article 16) - Law: 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 (Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications), 平成十三年法律第百三十七号 - English title "Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications": claude-opus-5-5 - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十六条 (Article 16)（消去禁止命令） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-16 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十六条（消去禁止命令） — (Deletion Prohibitory Order) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-16 **第一項** 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、当該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第十四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）が終了するまでの間、当該開示関係役務提供者が保有する発信者情報（当該発信者情報開示命令の申立てに係るものに限る。）を消去してはならない旨を命ずることができる。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-16/par-1 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 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, the court may issue a ruling ordering that the disclosure related service provider as the opposite party against whom the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order was filed may not delete the sender identification information (limited to that relating to the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order) possessed by the disclosure related service provider until the relevant case of the sender identification information disclosure order ends (or if an action prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) is instituted against a decision prescribed in the paragraph for that case of a sender identification information disclosure order, until the lawsuit ends). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による命令（以下この条において「消去禁止命令」という。）の申立ては、当該消去禁止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。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-16/par-2 A petition for the order issued pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "deletion prohibitory order") may be withdrawn in whole or in part even after the deletion prohibitory order is issued. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 消去禁止命令を受けた開示関係役務提供者は、当該消去禁止命令に対し、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-16/par-3 The disclosure related service provider against whom a deletion prohibitory order has been issued may file an immediate appeal against the deletion prohibitory order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 第十四条第一項 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-14/par-1 - art-16/par-2: 前項 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-16/par-1 - art-16/par-2: この条 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第十六条 (Article 16), art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-16 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第十六条第二項（消去禁止命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-16/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-10-12 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0000000137/20260717_508AC1000000058), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4443/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11