Supplementary Provisions, Article 17Transitional Measures Concerning Imprisonment
第十七条(拘禁刑に関する経過措置)
With regard to the application of Article 12-2-7-2, paragraph (8) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act during the period up to the day before the date of enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code (Act No. 67 of 2022) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments"), the term "imprisonment" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work"; the same applies to the application of that paragraph, on or after the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments, to acts committed before the Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendments.
刑法等の一部を改正する法律(令和四年法律第六十七号)の施行の日(以下この条において「刑法施行日」という。)の前日までの間における新法附則第十二条の二の七の二第八項の規定の適用については、同項中「拘禁刑」とあるのは、「懲役」とする。刑法施行日以後における刑法施行日前にした行為に対する同項の適用についても、同様とする。
the New Actmachine translation
「新法」
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 7 of 2025.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
Effective Date of the 2022 Penal Code Amendmentsmachine translation
「刑法施行日」
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 17, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
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.