Supplementary Provisions, Article 8Transitional Measures Concerning Imprisonment under the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc.
第八条（刑事訴訟法に係る拘禁刑に関する経過措置等）
With regard to the application of the provisions of the New Code of Criminal Procedure to a judgment imposing a sentence of imprisonment or a heavier sentence prescribed in Article 96, paragraph (4) 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 phrase "imprisonment or a heavier sentence" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment without work or a heavier sentence", and the phrase "the whole of the imprisonment" with "the whole of the imprisonment with work or imprisonment without work".
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九十六条第四項に規定する拘禁刑以上の刑に処する判決に係る新刑事訴訟法の規定の適用については、同項中「拘禁刑以上」とあるのは「禁錮以上」と、「拘禁刑の」とあるのは「懲役又は禁錮の」とする。
With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 96, paragraphs (6) and (7), Article 343-2, Article 390-2 and Article 402-2 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 is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment without work".
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九十六条第六項及び第七項、第三百四十三条の二、第三百九十条の二並びに第四百二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、「禁錮」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 Article 342-2, Article 342-3, Article 342-4, paragraph (2), Article 342-6, paragraph (2), Article 342-8, paragraph (1), Article 403-3, Article 479-2 and Article 483-2 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 342-2, Article 342-4, paragraph (2) and Article 342-6, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 483-2 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, and Article 485-2 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 403-3, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure) is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment without work".
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三百四十二条の二、第三百四十二条の三、第三百四十二条の四第二項、第三百四十二条の六第二項、第三百四十二条の八第一項、第四百三条の三、第四百七十九条の二及び第四百八十三条の二、同条において読み替えて適用する新刑事訴訟法第三百四十二条の二、第三百四十二条の四第二項及び第三百四十二条の六第二項並びに新刑事訴訟法第四百八十五条の二の規定の適用については、これらの規定（新刑事訴訟法第四百三条の三第二項を除く。）中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「禁錮」とする。
With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 344, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure during the period from the item (ii) Effective Date until the day preceding the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws, the term "imprisonment" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment without work".
第二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三百四十四条第二項の規定の適用については、同項中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「禁錮」とする。
With regard to the application, on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws, of the provisions of Article 96, paragraphs (4), (6) and (7), Article 98-17, paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning items (ii) and (iii)), Articles 342-2 and 342-3, and Article 342-4, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 94, paragraph (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 342-6, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, and Article 342-8, paragraph (1), Article 343-2, Article 344, paragraph (2), Article 403-3, Article 479-2 and Article 483-2 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, Articles 342-2 and 342-4 and Article 342-5, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 483-2 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 94, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 342-6, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, and Article 342-7 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, the provisions of Articles 485-2 and 489-2 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure, and the provisions of Article 98-12, paragraph (5), Article 98-13, paragraph (1), Article 98-14, paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning items (iv) and (v)) and paragraph (2), Article 98-15, paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (6), (8), (11) and (12), Article 98-16, paragraph (1), Article 98-17, paragraph (4), and Article 98-20, paragraphs (1), (3) and (6) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 489-2, paragraph (1) of the New Code of Criminal Procedure (referred to as the "provisions applied as read under Article 489-2" in the following paragraph), a judgment imposing a sentence of imprisonment with work or imprisonment without work is deemed to be a judgment imposing a sentence of imprisonment, respectively.
刑法等一部改正法施行日以後における新刑事訴訟法第九十六条第四項、第六項及び第七項、第九十八条の十七第一項（第二号及び第三号に係る部分に限る。）、第三百四十二条の二、第三百四十二条の三並びに第三百四十二条の四第二項、新刑事訴訟法第三百四十二条の六第二項において読み替えて準用する刑事訴訟法第九十四条第三項並びに新刑事訴訟法第三百四十二条の八第一項、第三百四十三条の二、第三百四十四条第二項、第四百三条の三、第四百七十九条の二及び第四百八十三条の二の規定、同条において読み替えて適用する新刑事訴訟法第三百四十二条の二、第三百四十二条の四並びに第三百四十二条の五第一項及び第三項、新刑事訴訟法第三百四十二条の六第二項において読み替えて準用する刑事訴訟法第九十四条第二項及び第三項並びに新刑事訴訟法第三百四十二条の七の規定、新刑事訴訟法第四百八十五条の二及び第四百八十九条の二の規定並びに同条第一項において読み替えて適用する新刑事訴訟法第九十八条の十二第五項、第九十八条の十三第一項、第九十八条の十四第一項（第四号及び第五号に係る部分に限る。）及び第二項、第九十八条の十五第一項、第三項、第四項、第六項、第八項、第十一項及び第十二項、第九十八条の十六第一項、第九十八条の十七第四項並びに第九十八条の二十第一項、第三項及び第六項の規定（次項において「第四百八十九条の二読替適用規定」という。）の適用については、懲役又は禁錮に処する判決は、それぞれ拘禁刑に処する判決とみなす。
With regard to the application, on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws, of the provisions of Article 96, paragraph (7), Article 98-17, paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning item (iii)) and Article 489-2 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure and the provisions applied as read under Article 489-2, a judgment imposing a sentence of penal detention prescribed in Article 16 of the Penal Code Before the 2022 Amendment is deemed to be a judgment imposing a sentence of penal detention.
刑法等一部改正法施行日以後における新刑事訴訟法第九十六条第七項、第九十八条の十七第一項（第三号に係る部分に限る。）及び第四百八十九条の二の規定並びに第四百八十九条の二読替適用規定の適用については、令和四年改正前刑法第十六条に規定する拘留に処する判決は、拘留に処する判決とみなす。
With regard to a crime relating to an act committed before the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws comes into effect, for the application of the provisions of Articles 390-2 and 402-2 of the New Code of Criminal Procedure on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Laws, a crime punishable by imprisonment with work or imprisonment without work is deemed to be a crime punishable by imprisonment, respectively.
刑法等一部改正法の施行前にした行為に係る罪に関しては、刑法等一部改正法施行日以後における新刑事訴訟法第三百九十条の二及び第四百二条の二の規定の適用については、懲役又は禁錮に当たる罪は、それぞれ拘禁刑に当たる罪とみなす。
2022 Act Amending the Penal Code and Other Lawsmachine translation
「刑法等一部改正法」
Short name for 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).
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)
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 (ii) Effective Datemachine translation
「第二号施行日」
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions of the amending law in question came into force.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (2)
Penal Code Before the 2022 Amendmentmachine translation
「令和四年改正前刑法」
In Article 5, paragraph (3) and Article 8, paragraph (6) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 28 of 2023, the Penal Code as it stood before Article 2 of 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) amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (3)· applies only in this paragraph and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (6)
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)
provisions applied as read under Article 489-2machine translation
「第四百八十九条の二読替適用規定」
In Article 8, paragraph (6) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 28 of 2023, the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by Article 1 of that Act, that Article 489-2, paragraph (1) applies with words replaced: Article 98-12, paragraph (5), Article 98-13, paragraph (1), and the parts of Articles 98-14 to 98-17 and 98-20 that paragraph (5) lists.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (5)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (6)
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.
imprisonment without work
禁錮
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), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years, without the prescribed work that imprisonment with work (懲役) carried (Penal Code, former Articles 12 and 13). That Act replaced both 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 Arts. 12, 13, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Arts. 441, 443 as a reference.
penal detention
拘留
A short criminal punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設) for one day to less than thirty days (Penal Code, Article 16, paragraph (1)). As with imprisonment (拘禁刑), the person may be made to do work or given guidance to help them reform (paragraph (2)). It ranks below a fine (罰金) and above a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 16 as a reference.