# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百九十四条の十 (Article 494-10)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第四百九十四条の十 (Article 494-10) — address `art-494-10`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-20
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### 第四百九十四条の十
<sup>art-494-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-10</sup>

  **第一項**  第四百九十四条の五の規定による拘置をした裁判所の許可を受けないで指定された期間を超えて制限された住居を離れてはならない旨の条件を付されて拘置の執行停止をされた者が、当該条件に係る住居を離れ、当該許可を受けないで、正当な理由がなく、当該期間を超えて当該住居に帰着しないときは、二年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
  <sup>art-494-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-10/par-1</sup>
  A person who has been granted suspension of execution of confinement on the condition that the person must not leave the restricted residence beyond the designated period without the permission of the court that carried out the confinement under the provisions of Article 494-5, and who has left the residence pertaining to that condition and, without receiving that permission and without justifiable grounds, fails to return to the residence beyond that period, is punished by imprisonment for not more than two years.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  前項の者が、第四百九十四条の五の規定による拘置をした裁判所の許可を受けて同項の住居を離れ、正当な理由がなく、当該住居を離れることができる期間として指定された期間を超えて当該住居に帰着しないときも、同項と同様とする。
  <sup>art-494-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-10/par-2</sup>
  The same applies where the person referred to in the preceding paragraph, having received the permission of the court that carried out the confinement under the provisions of Article 494-5, leaves the residence referred to in that paragraph and, without justifiable grounds, fails to return to the residence beyond the period designated as the period during which the person may leave the residence, as in that paragraph.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-494-10/par-1: 第四百九十四条の五 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の五 (Article 494-5), art-494-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-5
- art-494-10/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の十第一項 (Article 494-10, paragraph (1)), art-494-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-10/par-1
- art-494-10/par-2: 第四百九十四条の五 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の五 (Article 494-5), art-494-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-5

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の十第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-10/par-2
- 刑事訴訟法 附則第六条第一項（出国制限に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-28/art-6/par-1
- 刑事訴訟法 附則第七条第二項（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-2

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## 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-20261106T054114-016, 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
