# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三十六条の二 (Article 36-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-2. 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: 第三十六条の二 (Article 36-2) — address `art-36-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-2 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条の二 art-36-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-2 **第一項** この法律により弁護人を要する場合を除いて、被告人が前条の請求をするには、資力申告書（その者に属する現金、預金その他政令で定めるこれらに準ずる資産の合計額（以下「資力」という。）及びその内訳を申告する書面をいう。以下同じ。）を提出しなければならない。 art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-2/par-1 Except in cases requiring defense counsel as set forth pursuant to this Code, when making the request as prescribed in the preceding Article, the defendant must submit a report on personal financial resources (meaning a document reporting the total amount of cash, savings and other assets equivalent thereto provided for by Cabinet Order of such person (hereinafter referred to as "Financial Resources") and the breakdown of said Financial Resources; the same applies hereinafter). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Except in cases requiring defense counsel as set forth pursuant to this Code, when making the request as prescribed in the preceding Article, the accused must submit a report on personal financial resources (meaning the total amount of cash, savings and other assets equivalent thereto provided for by Cabinet Order of such person (hereinafter referred to as "Financial Resources") and a document reporting the breakdown of said Financial Resources; the same applies hereinafter)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-36-2/par-1: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 附則第二条第一項（第一条の規定による刑事訴訟法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-2/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 36-2, 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