CHAPTER VI A: INVESTIGATION

 

Article 47

(1) In addition to investigating officers at the State Police of the Republic of Indonesia, certain civil servants from the department whose scope of duties and responsibilities include the promotion of copyrights shall be granted special authority as investigators referred to in Act No. 8 of 1981 on Criminal Proceedings, to conduct investigations on criminal offences in the field of copyrights.

(2) The civil servant investigator referred to in paragraph (1) shall be authorised

a. to conduct examination of the truth of reports or information relating to criminal offences in the field of copyrights;

b. to conduct examination of a person or legal entity suspected of committing criminal offences in the field of copyrights;

c. to collect information and evidence from persons or legal entities in connection with incidents of criminal offences in the field of copyrights;

d. to conduct examination of the books, records and other documents relating to criminal offences in the field of copyrights;

e. to inspect locations on which evidence, books, records, and other documents to be found, as well as to confiscate materials and goods resulting from infringements which can used as evidence in the criminal trials in the field of copyrights;

f. to request expert assistance in the scope of carrying out the duties of investigation of criminal offences in the field of copyrights;

(3) The civil servant investigator referred to in paragraph (1) shall inform the investigating officers at the State Police of the Republic of Indonesia about the initiating and the result of an investigation.

(4) The civil servant investigator referred to in paragraph (1) shall forward the results of an investigation to the Public Prosecutor through the investigating officers at the State Police of the Republic of Indonesia in view of Act No. 8 of 1981 on Criminal Proceedings.

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