# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第九十八条の七 (Article 98-7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-7. 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: 第九十八条の七 (Article 98-7) — address `art-98-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-7 - 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. --- ### 第九十八条の七 art-98-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-7 **第一項** 裁判所は、監督者を選任した場合において、被告人の召喚がされたときその他この法律又は他の法律の規定により被告人が指定の日時及び場所に出頭しなければならないこととされたときは、速やかに、監督者に対し、その旨並びに当該日時及び場所を通知しなければならない。 art-98-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-7/par-1 When the court has appointed a supervisor, if the defendant is summoned or is otherwise required, pursuant to the provisions of this Code or other laws, to appear at a designated date, time and place, the court must promptly notify the supervisor of that fact and of that date, time and place. machine translation, not official **第二項** 裁判所は、第九十八条の四第四項（第一号に係る部分に限る。）の規定による出頭があつたときはその旨を、同項（第二号に係る部分に限る。）の規定による報告があつたときはその旨及びその報告の内容を、同項（第一号に係る部分に限る。）の規定による出頭若しくは同項（第二号イに係る部分に限る。）の規定による報告がなかつたとき又は同項（第二号ロに係る部分に限る。）の規定による報告がなかつたことを知つたときはその旨及びその状況を、それぞれ速やかに検察官に通知しなければならない。 art-98-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-7/par-2 The court must promptly notify the public prosecutor, in each case, of the fact where an appearance has been made pursuant to Article 98-4, paragraph (4) (limited to the part pertaining to item (i)); of the fact and the content of the report where a report has been made pursuant to that paragraph (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)); and of the fact and the circumstances where there has been no appearance pursuant to that paragraph (limited to the part pertaining to item (i)) or no report pursuant to that paragraph (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii), (a)), or where it has learned that there has been no report pursuant to that paragraph (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii), (b)). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-98-7/par-2: 第九十八条の四第四項 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条の四第四項 (Article 98-4, paragraph (4)), art-98-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-4/par-4 - art-98-7/par-2: 第一号 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条の四第四項第一号 (Article 98-4, paragraph (4), item (i)), art-98-4/par-4/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-4/par-4/item-1 - art-98-7/par-2: 第二号 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条の四第四項第二号 (Article 98-4, paragraph (4), item (ii)), art-98-4/par-4/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-4/par-4/item-2 --- ## 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-20261106T054114-002, 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