Article 826Government Agencies' Obligation to Give Notice to the Minister of Justice
第八百二十六条（官庁等の法務大臣に対する通知義務）
If a court or any other government agency, a public prosecutor or an official comes to know in the course of their duties that there are grounds for filing the petition referred to in Article 824, paragraph (1) or giving the warning referred to in item (iii) of that paragraph, the entity or person must give notice to that effect to the Minister of Justice.
裁判所その他の官庁、検察官又は吏員は、その職務上第八百二十四条第一項の申立て又は同項第三号の警告をすべき事由があることを知ったときは、法務大臣にその旨を通知しなければならない。
public prosecutor
検察官
The official who brings a prosecution (公訴) for a crime before a court (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 247), and who may decide not to prosecute where, in view of the offender's character, age and circumstances, the gravity and circumstances of the offence and what happened after it, prosecution is not needed (Article 248). In criminal cases a public prosecutor asks the court to apply the law correctly and oversees the carrying out of its judgments; and, as the representative of the public interest, a public prosecutor also does the work other laws and regulations assign to a public prosecutor, which is not limited to criminal cases (Public Prosecutors Office Act, Article 4). A public prosecutor may investigate any crime (Article 6, paragraph (1)). Public prosecutors work through the public prosecutors offices (検察庁): the Supreme, High, District and Local Public Prosecutors Offices (Article 1).
Written by AI using Code of Criminal Procedure, Arts. 247, 248 and Public Prosecutors Office Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6 as a reference.