When a court or any other government agency, a public prosecutor or an official comes to know in the course of performing their duties that a case that should be adjudicated exists upon the petition of a public prosecutor, the entity or person must give notice to that effect to a public prosecutor of the public prosecutor's office corresponding to the family court which has jurisdiction over the case.
裁判所その他の官庁、検察官又は吏員は、その職務上検察官の申立てにより審判をすべき場合が生じたことを知ったときは、管轄権を有する家庭裁判所に対応する検察庁の検察官にその旨を通知しなければならない。
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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.