(Crimes Concerning Ballot Boxes, etc.)

(1) Any person who opens a ballot box, or removes, destroys, damages, conceals, or seizes a ballot box (including an empty ballot box) or ballot
papers contained therein, in contravention of the Acts and subordinate statutes, shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not less
than one year nor more than ten years.

(2) The public prosecutor, police officer (including a judicial police officer), or military serviceman (including a civilian belonging to a military
investigation agency) shall, if committing or making another person commit an act provided in paragraph (1), be punished by imprisonment
with prison labor for not less than two years nor more than ten years.