# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百三条 (Article 303) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-303. 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: 第三百三条 (Article 303) — address `art-303` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-303 - 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. --- ### 第三百三条 art-303 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-303 **第一項** 公判準備においてした証人その他の者の尋問、検証、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。）、捜索及び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。）（当該電磁的記録提供命令により電磁的記録を提供させることを含む。）の結果を記載した書面並びに押収した物及び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。）により提供させた電磁的記録を記録した記録媒体については、裁判所は、公判期日において証拠書類又は証拠物としてこれを取り調べなければならない。 art-303/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-303/par-1 With regard to the document recording the results of the examination of witnesses or other persons, inspection, seizure (including an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to one ordering that the records be provided by the method listed in Article 102-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (a))), search and an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to one ordering that the records be provided by the method listed in (b) of that item) (including causing the provision of electronic or magnetic records by that order to provide electronic or magnetic records) conducted in trial preparation, and the articles seized and the recording medium on which the electronic or magnetic records provided by an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (limited to one ordering that the records be provided by the method listed in (b) of that item) are recorded, the court must examine them on the trial date as documentary evidence or articles of evidence. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-303/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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 第二十六条第二項（公判期日外の証人尋問等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-26/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 405AC0000000047) --- ## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-011, 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