# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百八十一条の五 (Article 281-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-5. 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: 第二百八十一条の五 (Article 281-5) — address `art-281-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-5 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百八十一条の五 art-281-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-5 **第一項** 被告人又は被告人であつた者が、検察官において被告事件の審理の準備のために閲覧又は謄写の機会を与えた証拠に係る複製等を、前条第一項各号に掲げる手続又はその準備に使用する目的以外の目的で、人に交付し、又は提示し、若しくは電気通信回線を通じて提供したときは、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-281-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-5/par-1 A defendant or a person who was formerly a defendant, who delivers, presents or sends by telecommunication lines to others copies of evidence pertaining to evidence which the public prosecutor has given the opportunity to inspect or copy for the preparation of the trial of the case charged, for a purpose other than for use in the procedures prescribed in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or the preparation thereof, is punished by imprisonment for not more than a year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official **第二項** 弁護人（第四百四十条に規定する弁護人を含む。以下この項において同じ。）又は弁護人であつた者が、検察官において被告事件の審理の準備のために閲覧又は謄写の機会を与えた証拠に係る複製等を、対価として財産上の利益その他の利益を得る目的で、人に交付し、又は提示し、若しくは電気通信回線を通じて提供したときも、前項と同様とする。 art-281-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-5/par-2 The same applies when a defense counsel (including the defense counsel provided for in Article 440, hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or a person who was formerly a defense counsel delivers, presents or sends by telecommunication lines to others for the purpose of obtaining property profits or other profits as consideration, copies and other materials of the evidence which the public prosecutor has given the opportunity to inspect or copy. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The same applies when a defense counsel (including the defense counsel provided for in Article 440, hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or a person who was formerly a defense counsel delivers, presents or sends by telecommunication lines to others for the purpose of property profits or other profits, copies and other materials which the public prosecutor has given the opportunity to inspect or copy." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-281-5/par-1: 前条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十一条の四第一項 (Article 281-4, paragraph (1)), art-281-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-4/par-1 - art-281-5/par-2: 第四百四十条 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百四十条 (Article 440), art-440 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-440 - art-281-5/par-2: この項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十一条の五第二項 (Article 281-5, paragraph (2)), art-281-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-5/par-2 - art-281-5/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十一条の五第一項 (Article 281-5, paragraph (1)), art-281-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-5/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十一条の五第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-5/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-5/par-1 --- ## 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 281-5, 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-010, 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