# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百七十九条 (Article 179) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-179. 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: 第百七十九条 (Article 179) — address `art-179` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-179 - 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. --- ### 第百七十九条 art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-179 **第一項** 被告人、被疑者又は弁護人は、あらかじめ証拠を保全しておかなければその証拠を使用することが困難な事情があるときは、第一回の公判期日前に限り、裁判官に押収（電磁的記録提供命令（第百二条の二第一項第一号イに掲げる方法による提供を命ずるものに限る。）を含む。）、捜索、電磁的記録提供命令（同号ロに掲げる方法による提供を命ずるものに限る。）、検証、証人の尋問又は鑑定の処分を請求することができる。 art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-179/par-1 The defendant, suspect, or the defense counsel may request of a judge a disposition on a seizure (including the provision 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), (a))), search, an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to an order for provision by the method set forth in (b) of that item), inspection, witness examination or expert examination, only before the first trial date, and when there are circumstances which suggest that it will be difficult to use the evidence unless it is preserved in advance. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の請求を受けた裁判官は、その処分に関し、裁判所又は裁判長と同一の権限を有する。 art-179/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-179/par-2 The judge who has been so requested as prescribed in the preceding paragraph has the same authority as that of a court or a presiding judge with regard to a disposition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-179/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-179/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百七十九条第一項 (Article 179, paragraph (1)), art-179/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-179/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百七十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-179/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-180/par-1 --- ## 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-20261106T054114-005, 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