# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第九十四条 (Article 94) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-94. 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: 第九十四条 (Article 94) — address `art-94` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-94 - 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. --- ### 第九十四条 art-94 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-94 **第一項** 保釈を許す決定は、保証金の納付があつた後でなければ、これを執行することができない。 art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-94/par-1 A ruling to grant bail may not be executed before payment of the bail bond. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、保釈請求者でない者に保証金を納めることを許すことができる。 art-94/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-94/par-2 The court may let a person other than the person requesting bail pay the bail bond. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 裁判所は、有価証券又は裁判所の適当と認める被告人以外の者の差し出した保証書を以て保証金に代えることを許すことができる。 art-94/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-94/par-3 The court may permit the bail bond to be paid in securities or with a written guarantee issued by an appropriate person other than the defendant, in place of cash. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may permit the bail bond to be paid in securities or with a written guarantee issued by an appropriate person other than the accused, in place of cash." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条の六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-6/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条の六第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-6/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条の九第八項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-9/par-8 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十二条の六第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-6/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十二条の七第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-7/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百八十三条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-483-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-4/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第八条第五項（刑事訴訟法に係る拘禁刑に関する経過措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-28/art-8/par-5 --- ## 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 94, paragraph (3) — 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