Supplementary Provisions, Article 7Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions Relating to the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc.
第七条（刑事訴訟法に係る罰則に関する経過措置等）
With regard to the application of the provisions of Articles 95-2, 95-3, 98-3, 208-3 through 208-5, 278-2, 343-3 and 484-2 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure during the period from the item (iii) Effective Date until the day preceding the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws, the term "imprisonment" in those provisions (excluding Article 95-3, paragraph (2) and Article 208-4, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure) is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies to the application of those provisions on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws to acts committed before the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws.
第三号施行日から刑法等一部改正法施行日の前日までの間における新刑事訴訟法第九十五条の二、第九十五条の三、第九十八条の三、第二百八条の三から第二百八条の五まで、第二百七十八条の二、第三百四十三条の三及び第四百八十四条の二の規定の適用については、これらの規定（新刑事訴訟法第九十五条の三第二項及び第二百八条の四第二項を除く。）中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「懲役」とする。刑法等一部改正法施行日以後における刑法等一部改正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 (vi) Effective Date is before the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws, with regard to the application of the provisions of Articles 494-9 through 494-11 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure during the period from the item (vi) Effective Date until the day preceding the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws, the term "imprisonment" in those provisions (excluding Article 494-10, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure) is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies to the application of those provisions on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws to acts committed before the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws.
第六号施行日が刑法等一部改正法施行日前である場合には、第六号施行日から刑法等一部改正法施行日の前日までの間における新刑事訴訟法第四百九十四条の九から第四百九十四条の十一までの規定の適用については、これらの規定（新刑事訴訟法第四百九十四条の十第二項を除く。）中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「懲役」とする。刑法等一部改正法施行日以後における刑法等一部改正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。
Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Lawsmachine translation
「刑法等一部改正法施行日」
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 1, paragraph (1), item (vii)
New Code of Criminal Proceduremachine translation
「新刑事訴訟法」
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 28 of 2023.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
item (vi) Effective Datemachine translation
「第六号施行日」
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (vi) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 28 of 2023) come into effect, a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within two years of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication).
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (1)
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.
imprisonment with work
懲役
A punishment the Penal Code had until Act No. 67 of 2022 came into force: being held in a penal institution (刑事施設) and made to do prescribed work, for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, former Article 12). That Act replaced it and imprisonment without work (禁錮) with imprisonment (拘禁刑) (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2). An act committed before then is, as a rule, still punished as the law then stood (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 441, paragraph (1)), and a person sentenced to it is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, former Art. 12, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Arts. 441, 443 as a reference.