# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第七十一条 (Article 71) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-71. 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: 第七十一条 (Article 71) — address `art-71` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-71 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条 art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-71 **第一項** 検察事務官又は司法警察職員は、必要があるときは、管轄区域外で、勾引状若しくは勾留状を執行し、又はその地の検察事務官若しくは司法警察職員にその執行を求めることができる。 art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-71/par-1 A public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official may, when it is necessary, execute the subpoena or detention warrant outside of said officer's jurisdiction, or request a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official in relevant jurisdiction to execute said subpoena or detention warrant. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official may, when it is necessary, execute the subpoena or detention warrant outside of said officer's jurisdiction, or request a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police officer in relevant jurisdiction to execute said subpoena or detention warrant." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第百八条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108/par-4 - 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 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第九項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-9 --- ## 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 71, paragraph (1) — 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