# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百九条 (Article 309) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309. 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: 第三百九条 (Article 309) — address `art-309` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309 - 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. --- ### 第三百九条 art-309 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309 **第一項** 検察官、被告人又は弁護人は、証拠調に関し異議を申し立てることができる。 art-309/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309/par-1 The public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel may raise objections regarding the examination of evidence. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The public prosecutor, the accused or the defense counsel may raise objections regarding the examination of evidence." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 検察官、被告人又は弁護人は、前項に規定する場合の外、裁判長の処分に対して異議を申し立てることができる。 art-309/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309/par-2 The public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel may, in addition to the objections prescribed in the preceding paragraph, raise objections to the dispositions of the presiding judge. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The public prosecutor, the accused or the defense counsel may, in addition to the objections prescribed in the preceding paragraph, raise objections to the dispositions of the presiding judge." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第三項** 裁判所は、前二項の申立について決定をしなければならない。 art-309/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309/par-3 The court must make a ruling on the objections raised under the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-309/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百九条第一項 (Article 309, paragraph (1)), art-309/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309/par-1 - art-309/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百九条第一項 (Article 309, paragraph (1)), art-309/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309/par-1 - art-309/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百九条第二項 (Article 309, paragraph (2)), art-309/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-309/par-3 --- ## 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 309, paragraph (1) — 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 (刑事訴訟法), Article 309, 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06