# 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 / Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles — 第四十三条 (Article 43)

- Law: 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 (Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles), 令和五年法律第六十七号
- English title "Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles": 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: 第四十三条 (Article 43) — address `art-43`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/art-43
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-43
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### 第四十三条
<sup>art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-43</sup>

  **第一項**  消去命令に違反したときは、その違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。
  <sup>art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-43/par-1</sup>
  If an erasure order is violated, the person who committed the violation is punished by imprisonment for one year or less or a fine of 1,000,000 yen or less.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第四十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-45/par-1
- 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/suppl-5051-67/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/suppl-5051-67/art-3/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English titles of cited laws, written for this site, written 2026-09-29
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/505AC0000000067/20260521_507AC0000000039), retrieved 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sexual-image-filming-act-20261011T094824-009, translated 2026-10-11
- This site's parser, version 189 — 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11
