# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第七十条 (Article 70) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-70. 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: 第七十条 (Article 70) — address `art-70` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-70 - 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. --- ### 第七十条 art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-70 **第一項** 勾引状又は勾留状は、検察官の指揮によつて、検察事務官又は司法警察職員がこれを執行する。但し、急速を要する場合には、裁判長、受命裁判官又は地方裁判所、家庭裁判所若しくは簡易裁判所の裁判官は、その執行を指揮することができる。 art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-70/par-1 Subpoenas or detention warrants are, under the direction of a public prosecutor, executed by a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official; provided however, that in cases requiring urgency, the presiding judge, a commissioned judge or a judge of a district court, family court or summary court may direct its execution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 刑事施設にいる被告人に対して発せられた勾留状は、検察官の指揮によつて、刑事施設職員がこれを執行する。 art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-70/par-2 A detention warrant issued against a defendant in a penal institution is executed by an official of the penal institution under the direction of a public prosecutor. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A subpoena issued against an accused in a penal institution is executed by an official of the penal institution under the direction of a public prosecutor." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百三十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-136/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第百五十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-153/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七条の三第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-207-3/par-4 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-472/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の七第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-7/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の十二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-12/par-3 --- ## 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 70, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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 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