# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五百条の三 (Article 500-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-3. 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: 第五百条の三 (Article 500-3) — address `art-500-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-3 - 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. --- ### 第五百条の三 art-500-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-3 **第一項** 検察官は、訴訟費用の裁判を執行する場合において、前条の規定による予納がされた金額があるときは、その予納がされた金額から当該訴訟費用の額に相当する金額を控除し、当該金額を当該訴訟費用の納付に充てる。 art-500-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-3/par-1 In the execution of a decision on court costs, when there is an amount prepaid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, a public prosecutor deducts an amount equivalent to the court costs from the prepaid amount and appropriates the amount to the payment of those court costs. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the execution of a decision on court costs, when there is an amount prepaid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, a public prosecutor deducts an amount equivalent to the court costs from the prepaid amount and appropriate the amount to the payment of those court costs." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により予納がされた金額から訴訟費用の額に相当する金額を控除して残余があるときは、その残余の額は、その予納をした者の請求により返還する。 art-500-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-3/par-2 When there is a remaining amount after the deduction of an amount equivalent to court costs from a prepaid amount pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the remaining amount is returned upon request from the person who has made the prepayment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-500-3/par-1: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 第五百条の二 (Article 500-2), art-500-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-2 - art-500-3/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第五百条の三第一項 (Article 500-3, paragraph (1)), art-500-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第五百条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-3/par-2 --- ## 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 500-3, 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