# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五百六条 (Article 506)

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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: 第五百六条 (Article 506) — address `art-506`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-20
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### 第五百六条
<sup>art-506 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-506</sup>

  **第一項**  第四百九十条第一項の裁判の執行の費用は、執行を受ける者の負担とし、民事執行法その他強制執行の手続に関する法令の規定に従い、執行と同時にこれを取り立てなければならない。
  <sup>art-506/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-506/par-1</sup>
  The costs for the execution of the decision prescribed in Article 490, paragraph (1) shall be borne by the person whose sentence is executed, and shall be collected at the same time as the execution in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Execution Act and other laws and regulations with regard to the procedures of compulsory execution.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The costs for the execution of the decision prescribed in Article 490, paragraph (1) shall be borne by the person whose sentence is executed, and shall be collected at the same time as the execution in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Enforcement Act and other laws and regulations with regard to the procedures of compulsory execution." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb</sup>

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## Cites
- art-506/par-1: 第四百九十条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十条第一項 (Article 490, paragraph (1)), art-490/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-490/par-1

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## 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 506, 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
- This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
