Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Transitional Measures
第三条（経過措置）
The provisions of Article 250 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to as the "New Act" in the following paragraph) do not apply to a crime for which the statute of limitations for prosecution has already been completed at the time this Act comes into effect.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 156 of 2004), the provisions of Article 250, paragraph (1) of the New Act also apply to a crime causing the death of a person and punishable with imprisonment without work or a greater punishment that was committed before that Act came into effect and for which the statute of limitations for prosecution has not been completed at the time this Act comes into effect.
新法第二百五十条第一項の規定は、刑法等の一部を改正する法律（平成十六年法律第百五十六号）附則第三条第二項の規定にかかわらず、同法の施行前に犯した人を死亡させた罪であって禁錮以上の刑に当たるもので、この法律の施行の際その公訴の時効が完成していないものについても、適用する。
the New Actmachine translation
「新法」
The Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)
imprisonment without work
禁錮
A punishment the Penal Code had until Act No. 67 of 2022 came into force: being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years, without the prescribed work that imprisonment with work (懲役) carried (Penal Code, former Articles 12 and 13). That Act replaced both with imprisonment (拘禁刑) (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2). An act committed before then is, as a rule, still punished as the law then stood (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 441, paragraph (1)), and a person sentenced to it is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, former Arts. 12, 13, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Arts. 441, 443 as a reference.