# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三十六条の三 (Article 36-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-3. 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: 第三十六条の三 (Article 36-3) — address `art-36-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-3 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十六条の三 art-36-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-3 **第一項** この法律により弁護人を要する場合を除いて、その資力が基準額（標準的な必要生計費を勘案して一般に弁護人の報酬及び費用を賄うに足りる額として政令で定める額をいう。以下同じ。）以上である被告人が第三十六条の請求をするには、あらかじめ、その請求をする裁判所の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所の管轄区域内に在る弁護士会に第三十一条の二第一項の申出をしていなければならない。 art-36-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-3/par-1 Except in cases requiring defense counsel as set forth pursuant to this Code, where the defendant, whose Financial Resources are equal to or more than the base amount (meaning the amount provided for by Cabinet Order as an amount generally sufficient enough to cover the remuneration and expenses of the defense counsel after taking into account the average necessary cost of living; the same applies hereinafter), is to make the request set forth in Article 36, said defendant must first have made the request set forth in Article 31-2, paragraph (1) to the bar association within the jurisdictional district of the district court which has jurisdiction over the place where the court to which the request is to be made is located. 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, where the accused, whose Financial Resources are equal to or more than the base amount (meaning the amount provided for by Cabinet Order as an amount generally sufficient enough to cover the remuneration and expenses of the defense counsel after taking into account the average necessary cost of living; the same applies hereinafter), is to make the request set forth in Article 36, said accused must first have made the request set forth in Article 31-2, paragraph (1) to the bar association within the jurisdictional district of the district court which has jurisdiction over the place where the court to which the request is to be made is located." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により第三十一条の二第一項の申出を受けた弁護士会は、同条第三項の規定による通知をしたときは、前項の地方裁判所又は当該被告事件が係属する裁判所に対し、その旨を通知しなければならない。 art-36-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-3/par-2 Where the bar association, which received the request set forth in Article 31-2, paragraph (1) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, has given the notification under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article, it must notify the district court set forth in the preceding paragraph or the court where the case is pending to such effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-36-3/par-1: 第三十六条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36 - art-36-3/par-1: 第三十一条の二第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十一条の二第一項 (Article 31-2, paragraph (1)), art-31-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-31-2/par-1 - art-36-3/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十六条の三第一項 (Article 36-3, paragraph (1)), art-36-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-3/par-1 - art-36-3/par-2: 第三十一条の二第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十一条の二第一項 (Article 31-2, paragraph (1)), art-31-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-31-2/par-1 - art-36-3/par-2: 同条第三項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十一条の二第三項 (Article 31-2, paragraph (3)), art-31-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-31-2/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三十六条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-3/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-272/par-2 - 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 36-3, 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