Supplementary Provisions, Article 4

①A public prosecutor or judicial police officer may, even before the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, inform a suspect who has been arrested for, or against whom a detention warrant has been issued for, a case punishable by the death penalty, or by imprisonment with or without work for life or with a minimum term of one year or more, of the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, and that, on or after that date, when the suspect for whom detention is requested or against whom a detention warrant has been issued is unable to appoint defense counsel on the suspect's own due to poverty or any other grounds, the suspect may request a judge to appoint defense counsel, that a report on personal financial resources must be submitted in order to request a judge to appoint defense counsel, and that, when the suspect's Financial Resources are the base amount or more, the suspect must have first made a request for the appointment of defense counsel to the bar association within the jurisdictional district of the district court which has jurisdiction over the place where the court to which the judge who received the request for detention belongs is located.

②With regard to a suspect who has been informed by a public prosecutor or judicial police officer pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it is not necessary to inform the suspect again of the matters under the provisions of the preceding Article for that case.