# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百九十四条の六 (Article 494-6) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-6. 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: 第四百九十四条の六 (Article 494-6) — address `art-494-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-6 - 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. --- ### 第四百九十四条の六 art-494-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-6 **第一項** 前条の規定による拘置は、第三百四十五条の二又は第四百九十四条の三の規定による決定を受けた者に対し理由を告げこれに関する陳述を聴いた後でなければ、することができない。ただし、その者が逃亡した場合は、この限りでない。 art-494-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-6/par-1 Confinement under the provisions of the preceding Article may be carried out only after the reasons have been told to the person who has received a ruling under the provisions of Article 345-2 or Article 494-3 and the person has been heard on the matter; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person has fled. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-494-6/par-1: 前条 → 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-494-6/par-1: 第三百四十五条の二 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十五条の二 (Article 345-2), art-345-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-2 - art-494-6/par-1: 第四百九十四条の三 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の三 (Article 494-3), art-494-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十二条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-492-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-8/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の十二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-12/par-1 - 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 --- ## 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