# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五百条 (Article 500) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500. 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: 第五百条 (Article 500) — address `art-500` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500 - 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. --- ### 第五百条 art-500 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500 **第一項** 訴訟費用の負担を命ぜられた者は、貧困のためこれを完納することができないときは、裁判所の規則の定めるところにより、訴訟費用の全部又は一部について、その裁判の執行の免除の申立をすることができる。 art-500/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500/par-1 When a person who has been ordered to bear the court costs can not pay those costs due to indigence, he/she may, in accordance with the Rules of Court, request to be exempted in whole or in part from execution of the decision for him/her to pay said court costs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の申立は、訴訟費用の負担を命ずる裁判が確定した後二十日以内にこれをしなければならない。 art-500/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500/par-2 A request as set forth in the previous paragraph shall be made within twenty days of when the decision that orders the person to bear court costs becomes final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-500/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第五百条第一項 (Article 500, paragraph (1)), art-500/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十一条の四第一項第二号ト — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-281-4/par-1/item-2/sub-7 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百八十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-483/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-503/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-503/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-504/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 - 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