Supplementary Provisions, Article 5Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Penal Code
第五条(刑法の一部改正に伴う経過措置)
If the Effective Date precedes the date of enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) (hereinafter referred to in this Article and Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions as the "Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments"), with regard to the application of Article 24-6, Article 25 and Article 25-2 of the Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as Amended by Article 1 until the day preceding the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments, the phrase "imprisonment" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies to the application of these provisions on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments to an act committed before the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments.
施行日が刑法等の一部を改正する法律(令和四年法律第六十七号)の施行の日(以下この条及び附則第二十八条において「刑法施行日」という。)前である場合には、刑法施行日の前日までの間における第一条改正後大麻法第二十四条の六、第二十五条及び第二十五条の二の規定の適用については、これらの規定中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「懲役」とする。刑法施行日以後における刑法施行日前にした行為に対するこれらの規定の適用についても、同様とする。
If the item (ii) Effective Date precedes the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments, with regard to the application of Article 24-2, Article 24-6, Article 25 and Article 25-2 of the Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as Amended by Article 2 until the day preceding the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments, the phrase "imprisonment" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies to the application of these provisions on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments to an act committed before the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments.
the Effective Datemachine translation
「施行日」
The date Act No. 84 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)
Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as Amended by Article 1machine translation
「第一条改正後大麻法」
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 84 of 2023.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)
item (ii) Effective Datemachine translation
「第二号施行日」
1 March 2025, the date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2023, among them its Article 2, which amended this Act a second time, came into effect.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)
Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as Amended by Article 2machine translation
「第二条改正後大麻法」
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 84 of 2023, the second stage of that Act's amendments, which came into effect on 1 March 2025.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (2); and Supplementary Provisions, Article 7
Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendmentsmachine translation
「刑法施行日」
The day the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 28
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.