# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五百十一条の二 (Article 511-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-511-2. 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: 第五百十一条の二 (Article 511-2) — address `art-511-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-511-2 - 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. --- ### 第五百十一条の二 art-511-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-511-2 **第一項** 裁判所又は裁判官は、裁判の執行に関して必要があると認めるときは、電磁的記録提供命令をすることができる。 art-511-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-511-2/par-1 A court or a judge may, when it finds it necessary with regard to the execution of a decision, issue an order to provide electronic or magnetic records. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定による電磁的記録提供命令は、提供させるべき電磁的記録及び提供の方法を指定してするものとする。 art-511-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-511-2/par-2 An order to provide electronic or magnetic records under the preceding paragraph is to be issued by designating the electronic or magnetic records to be provided and the method of provision. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-511-2/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第五百十一条の二第一項 (Article 511-2, paragraph (1)), art-511-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-511-2/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十一条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-511-2/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-7 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第十項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-10 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513-2/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第百八十九条第三項（過料の裁判の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-189/par-3 (e-Gov law ID 408AC0000000109) --- ## 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-20261106T054114-017, 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