# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百二十三条の二 (Article 123-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123-2. 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: 第百二十三条の二 (Article 123-2) — address `art-123-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123-2 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十三条の二 art-123-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123-2 **第一項** 電磁的記録提供命令（第百二条の二第一項第一号ロに掲げる方法（電磁的記録を記録媒体に移転させるものに限る。）による提供を命ずるものに限る。）により移転させた電磁的記録について、当該電磁的記録提供命令を受けた者に保管させないこととする理由がなくなつたときは、当該者の請求により又は職権で、被告事件の終結を待たないで、決定で、当該者に対し、当該電磁的記録の複写を許さなければならない。 art-123-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123-2/par-1 With regard to electronic or magnetic records transferred under an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to an order for provision by the method set forth in Article 102-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (b) (limited to the method of having electronic or magnetic records transferred to a recording medium)), when there ceases to be a reason for not having the person who received that order to provide electronic or magnetic records retain them, the court must, upon the request of that person or on its own authority, allow that person, by a ruling, to copy those electronic or magnetic records without waiting for the conclusion of the case. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前条第四項の規定は、前項の決定について準用する。 art-123-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123-2/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the ruling under the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-123-2/par-1: 第百二条の二第一項第一号 → 刑事訴訟法 第百二条の二第一項第一号 (Article 102-2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-102-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-102-2/par-1/item-1 - art-123-2/par-2: 前条第四項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百二十三条第四項 (Article 123, paragraph (4)), art-123/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123/par-4 - art-123-2/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百二十三条の二第一項 (Article 123-2, paragraph (1)), art-123-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123-2/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百二十三条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123-2/par-2 - 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 第四百二十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-420/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百二十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-429/par-1/item-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百三十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-430/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-6 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第十項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-10 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第十二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-12 - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十一条の二第一項第二号（対象電磁的記録の複写不許可決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-11-2/par-1/item-2 (e-Gov law ID 505AC0000000067) - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十二条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-12-2/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 505AC0000000067) --- ## 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 - 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