# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百十四条 (Article 214)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第二百十四条 (Article 214) — address `art-214`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-20
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### 第二百十四条
<sup>art-214 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-214</sup>

  **第一項**  検察官、検察事務官及び司法警察職員以外の者は、現行犯人を逮捕したときは、直ちにこれを地方検察庁若しくは区検察庁の検察官又は司法警察職員に引き渡さなければならない。
  <sup>art-214/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-214/par-1</sup>
  When any person other than public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials has arrested an offender caught in the act, the arrester must immediately deliver said person to a public prosecutor of a district or local public prosecutor's office or to a judicial police official.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 刑事訴訟法 第二百十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-217/par-1

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## 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
