# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百三条 (Article 103) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-103. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 刑事訴訟法 (Code of Criminal Procedure), 昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号 - English title "Code of Criminal Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百三条 (Article 103) — address `art-103` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-103 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百三条 art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-103 **第一項** 公務員又は公務員であつた者が保管し、又は所持する物について、本人又は当該公務所から職務上の秘密に関するものであることを申し立てたときは、当該監督官庁の承諾がなければ、押収をすることはできない。但し、当該監督官庁は、国の重大な利益を害する場合を除いては、承諾を拒むことができない。 art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-103/par-1 Articles retained or possessed by a government employee or an ex-government employee may not be seized without the consent of said employee's supervisory public agency, when said employee or the public agency asserts that the articles pertain to official confidential information; provided however, that the supervisory public agency may not refuse consent except where the seizure may harm important national interests. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-104/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第百五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-105-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-7 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 刑事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-10-20 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000131/20261020_508AC0000000067), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06