第八条第一項前段の場合においては第二十一条の決定があつてから、第八条第一項後段の場合においては送致を受けてから、保護処分の決定が確定するまで、公訴の時効は、その進行を停止する。
The statute of limitations for prosecution is suspended during the period from the date on which the ruling prescribed in Article 21 is given on the case prescribed in the first sentence of Article 8, paragraph (1), or from the date on which the case prescribed in the second sentence of Article 8, paragraph (1) was referred to a family court, to the date on which the ruling to subject disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent becomes final and binding.