# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百四十九条 (Article 449) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-449. 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: 第四百四十九条 (Article 449) — address `art-449` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-449 - 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. --- ### 第四百四十九条 art-449 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-449 **第一項** 控訴を棄却した確定判決とその判決によつて確定した第一審の判決とに対して再審の請求があつた場合において、第一審裁判所が再審の判決をしたときは、控訴裁判所は、決定で再審の請求を棄却しなければならない。 art-449/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-449/par-1 When a retrial has been requested against a final and binding judgment which dismissed an appeal and the judgment of first instance which was made final and binding by that judgment, and the court of first instance has rendered a judgment in the retrial, the court of second instance shall dismiss the request for a retrial on a ruling. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a retrial has been requested against a final and binding judgment which dismissed an appeal and the judgment of first instance was made final and binding by the court of first instance rendered judgment a retrial, the court of second instance shall dismiss request for a retrial on a ruling." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **第二項** 第一審又は第二審の判決に対する上告を棄却した判決とその判決によつて確定した第一審又は第二審の判決とに対して再審の請求があつた場合において、第一審裁判所又は控訴裁判所が再審の判決をしたときは、上告裁判所は、決定で再審の請求を棄却しなければならない。 art-449/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-449/par-2 When a retrial has been requested against a judgment which dismissed the final appeal against the judgment of first instance or second instance and the judgment in the first instance or second instance was made final and binding by such judgment, and the court of first instance or the court of second instance rendered the judgment of retrial, the court of final appellate instance shall dismiss the request for a retrial on a ruling. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百五十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-450/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百五十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-451/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 449, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/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