If a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment for life as a juvenile has been paroled, and ten years have passed without revocation of the parole, then the person is deemed to have served their full sentence.
少年のとき無期拘禁刑の言渡しを受けた者が、仮釈放後、その処分を取り消されないで十年を経過したときは、刑の執行を受け終わつたものとする。
If a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment for a fixed term as a juvenile, pursuant to the provisions of Article 51, paragraph (2), or pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1) or paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Article, has been paroled, and, without revocation of the parole, a period equal to the period during which the person served the sentence before being paroled, or the term of sentence prescribed in Article 51, paragraph (2) or the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed in Article 52, paragraph (1), has passed, then the person is deemed to have served their full sentence at whichever of those times comes first.
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juvenile
「少年」
In this Act, a person under 20 years of age.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
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.