# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百十六条 (Article 216) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-216. 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: 第二百十六条 (Article 216) — address `art-216` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-216 - 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. --- ### 第二百十六条 art-216 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-216 **第一項** 現行犯人が逮捕された場合には、第百九十九条の規定により被疑者が逮捕された場合に関する規定を準用する。 art-216/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-216/par-1 The provisions with regard to a case where a suspect has been arrested pursuant to the provisions of Article 199 apply mutatis mutandis to a case where an offender caught in the act has been arrested. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-216/par-1: 第百九十九条 → 刑事訴訟法 第百九十九条 (Article 199), art-199 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-199 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第六十五条第一項（刑事訴訟法の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-65/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 326CO0000000319) - 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 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百一条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-301-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百一条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-301-2/par-4 --- ## 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