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Article 32Period of Prescription

第三十二条(時効の期間)

Prescription takes effect when a punishment has not been executed within any of the following terms after a sentence has become final and binding:

時効は、刑の言渡しが確定した後、次の期間その執行を受けないことによって完成する。

thirty years for imprisonment for life;

無期拘禁刑については三十年

twenty years for imprisonment for a definite term of 10 years or more;

十年以上の有期拘禁刑については二十年

ten years for imprisonment for a definite term of 3 years or more but less than 10 years;

三年以上十年未満の拘禁刑については十年

five years for imprisonment for a definite term of less than 3 years;

三年未満の拘禁刑については五年

three years for a fine;

罰金については三年

one year for a penal detention, a petty fine and confiscation.

拘留、科料及び没収については一年

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