# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第八十一条 (Article 81) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-81. 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: 第八十一条 (Article 81) — address `art-81` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-81 - 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. --- ### 第八十一条 art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-81 **第一項** 裁判所は、逃亡し又は罪証を隠滅すると疑うに足りる相当な理由があるときは、検察官の請求により又は職権で、勾留されている被告人と第三十九条第一項に規定する者以外の者との接見を禁じ、又はこれと授受すべき書類その他の物を検閲し、その授受を禁じ、若しくはこれを差し押えることができる。但し、糧食の授受を禁じ、又はこれを差し押えることはできない。 art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-81/par-1 The court may, when there is probable cause to suspect that the defendant under detention may flee or conceal or destroy evidence, upon the request of a public prosecutor or ex officio, prohibit the defendant from having an interview with persons other than those prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1), or censor the documents or articles sent or received by the defendant, prohibit the sending or receiving of said documents or articles, or seize said documents or articles; provided however, that the court may not prohibit the sending or receiving of food, nor seize food. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may, when there is probable cause to suspect that the accused under detention may flee or conceal or destroy evidence, upon the request of a public prosecutor or ex officio, prohibit the accused from having an interview with persons other than those prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1), or censor the documents or articles sent or received by the accused, prohibit the sending or receiving of said documents or articles, or seize said documents or articles; provided however, that the court may not prohibit the sending or receiving of food, nor seize food." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-81/par-1: 第三十九条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-39/par-1 --- ## 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 81, 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