# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百十六条の三十二 (Article 316-32) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-32. 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: 第三百十六条の三十二 (Article 316-32) — address `art-316-32` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-32 - 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. --- ### 第三百十六条の三十二 art-316-32 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-32 **第一項** 公判前整理手続又は期日間整理手続に付された事件については、検察官及び被告人又は弁護人は、第二百九十八条第一項の規定にかかわらず、やむを得ない事由によつて公判前整理手続又は期日間整理手続において請求することができなかつたものを除き、当該公判前整理手続又は期日間整理手続が終わつた後には、証拠調べを請求することができない。 art-316-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-32/par-1 With regard to a case which has been placed in a pretrial arrangement proceeding or an inter-trial arrangement proceeding, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 298, paragraph (1), the public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel may not request examination of evidence after the end of the pretrial arrangement proceeding or the inter-trial arrangement proceeding, except evidence that was not able to be requested in the proceeding because of unavoidable reasons. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With regard to a case which has been placed in a pretrial arrangement proceeding or an inter-trial arrangement proceeding, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 298, paragraph (1), the public prosecutor and the accused or the defense counsel may not request examination of evidence after the end of the pretrial arrangement proceeding or the inter-trial arrangement proceeding, except evidence that was not able to be requested in the proceeding because of unavoidable reasons." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項の規定は、裁判所が、必要と認めるときに、職権で証拠調べをすることを妨げるものではない。 art-316-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-32/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not prevent the court from examining evidence ex officio when the court deems it to be necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-316-32/par-1: 第二百九十八条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百九十八条第一項 (Article 298, paragraph (1)), art-298/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-298/par-1 - art-316-32/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の三十二第一項 (Article 316-32, paragraph (1)), art-316-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-32/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の三十二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-32/par-2 --- ## 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 316-32, 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 — 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