# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第十七条 (Article 17) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17. 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: 第十七条 (Article 17) — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条 art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17 **第一項** 検察官は、左の場合には、直近上級の裁判所に管轄移転の請求をしなければならない。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17/par-1 A public prosecutor must request the next higher court of the court concerned to effect a change of jurisdiction when: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 管轄裁判所が法律上の理由又は特別の事情により裁判権を行うことができないとき。 art-17/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17/par-1/item-1 the competent court is unable to exercise its jurisdiction owing to legal reasons or special circumstances; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 地方の民心、訴訟の状況その他の事情により裁判の公平を維持することができない虞があるとき。 art-17/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17/par-1/item-2 there is a concern that the impartiality of the trial cannot be maintained owing to the general sentiment of the local people in the district, the state of the proceedings, or due to any other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項各号の場合には、被告人も管轄移転の請求をすることができる。 art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17/par-2 In the cases prescribed in each of the items of the preceding paragraph, the defendant may also request a change of jurisdiction. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the cases prescribed in each of the items of the preceding paragraph, the accused may also request a change of jurisdiction." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-17/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-17/par-2 --- ## 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 17, paragraph (2) — 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06