Supplementary Provisions, Article 5
第五条
The provisions of Article 60 also apply to a person who, before this Act came into effect, was sentenced, for a crime committed as a juvenile, to death, to imprisonment with work for life prescribed in Article 12 of the Penal Code prior to amendment by Article 2 of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Former Penal Code"), or to imprisonment without work for life prescribed in Article 13 of the Former Penal Code, and who has served the term of the sentence through commutation of sentence or on other grounds, or who has been exempted from execution of the sentence.
juvenile
「少年」
In this Act, a person under 20 years of age.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
Former Penal Codemachine translation
「旧刑法」
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 (1)· applies only in this article