# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百十三条 (Article 113) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-113. 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: 第百十三条 (Article 113) — address `art-113` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-113 - 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. --- ### 第百十三条 art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-113 **第一項** 検察官、被告人又は弁護人は、差押状又は捜索状の執行に立ち会うことができる。ただし、身体の拘束を受けている被告人は、この限りでない。 art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-113/par-1 The public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel may attend the execution of a seizure warrant or search warrant; provided however, that this does not apply to a defendant who is in custody. machine translation, not official **第二項** 差押状又は捜索状の執行をする者は、あらかじめ、執行の日時及び場所を前項の規定により立ち会うことができる者に通知しなければならない。ただし、これらの者があらかじめ裁判所に立ち会わない意思を明示した場合及び急速を要する場合は、この限りでない。 art-113/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-113/par-2 The executing officer of the seizure warrant or search warrant must notify persons who may attend, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, in advance of the date, time and location of the execution of the warrant; provided however, that this does not apply when such persons declare to the court in advance their intention not to attend said execution, or in cases requiring urgency. machine translation, not official **第三項** 裁判所は、差押状又は捜索状の執行について必要があるときは、被告人をこれに立ち会わせることができる。 art-113/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-113/par-3 The court may, when it is necessary to execute a search warrant or seizure warrant, have the defendant attend said warrant execution. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may, when it is necessary to execute a search warrant or seizure warrant, have the accused attend said warrant execution." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-113/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百十三条第一項 (Article 113, paragraph (1)), art-113/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-113/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-113/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第百四十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-142/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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Code of Criminal Procedure, written 2026-11-06 - 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 (刑事訴訟法), Article 113, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-004, translated 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