# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百四十三条の三 (Article 343-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-343-3. 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: 第三百四十三条の三 (Article 343-3) — address `art-343-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-343-3 - 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. --- ### 第三百四十三条の三 art-343-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-343-3 **第一項** 前条の規定による命令を受けた被告人が、正当な理由がなく、指定された日時及び場所に出頭しないときは、二年以下の拘禁刑に処する。 art-343-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-343-3/par-1 A defendant who has received an order under the preceding Article and who fails to appear at the date and time and the place designated without justifiable grounds is punished by imprisonment for not more than two years. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-343-3/par-1: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十三条の二 (Article 343-2), art-343-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-343-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 附則第七条第一項（刑事訴訟法に係る罰則に関する経過措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-28/art-7/par-1 --- ## 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 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-013, 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