# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五百条の四 (Article 500-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-4. 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: 第五百条の四 (Article 500-4) — address `art-500-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-4 - 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. --- ### 第五百条の四 art-500-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-4 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、第五百条の二の規定による予納がされた金額は、その予納をした者の請求により返還する。 art-500-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-4/par-1 In one of the following cases, an amount prepaid pursuant to the provisions of Article 500-2 is returned upon request from the person who has made the prepayment: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第三十八条の二の規定により弁護人の選任が効力を失つたとき。 art-500-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-4/par-1/item-1 when the appointment of a defense counsel ceases to be effective pursuant to the provisions of Article 38-2; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 訴訟手続が終了する場合において、被告人に訴訟費用の負担を命ずる裁判がなされなかつたとき。 art-500-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-4/par-1/item-2 when court proceedings are concluded and a decision to order the defendant to bear court costs is not made; or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "when court proceedings are concluded and a decision to order the accused to bear court costs is not made; or" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **三** 訴訟費用の負担を命ぜられた者が、訴訟費用の全部について、その裁判の執行の免除を受けたとき。 art-500-4/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-500-4/par-1/item-3 when a person who has been ordered to bear court costs is exempted in whole from execution of the decision on the court costs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-500-4/par-1: 第五百条の二 → 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-500-4/par-1/item-1: 第三十八条の二 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十八条の二 (Article 38-2), art-38-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-38-2 --- ## 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 500-4, paragraph (1), item (ii) — 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