# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4161-62/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-4 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4161-62/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-4 **第一項** 検察官又は司法警察員は、附則第一条第一号に掲げる規定の施行の日前においても、死刑又は無期若しくは短期一年以上の懲役若しくは禁錮に当たる事件について逮捕され、又は勾留状が発せられている被疑者に対し、附則第一条第一号に掲げる規定の施行の日を告げ、その日以後、勾留を請求され、又は勾留状が発せられている被疑者が貧困その他の事由により自ら弁護人を選任することができないときは裁判官に対して弁護人の選任を請求することができる旨並びに裁判官に対して弁護人の選任を請求するには資力申告書を提出しなければならない旨及びその資力が基準額以上であるときは、あらかじめ、その勾留の請求を受けた裁判官の所属する裁判所の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所の管轄区域内に在る弁護士会に弁護人の選任の申出をしていなければならない旨を教示することができる。 suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-1 A public prosecutor or judicial police officer may, even before the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, inform a suspect who has been arrested for, or against whom a detention warrant has been issued for, a case punishable by the death penalty, or by imprisonment with or without work for life or with a minimum term of one year or more, of the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, and that, on or after that date, when the suspect for whom detention is requested or against whom a detention warrant has been issued is unable to appoint defense counsel on the suspect's own due to poverty or any other grounds, the suspect may request a judge to appoint defense counsel, that a report on personal financial resources must be submitted in order to request a judge to appoint defense counsel, and that, when the suspect's Financial Resources are the base amount or more, the suspect must have first made a request for the appointment of defense counsel to the bar association within the jurisdictional district of the district court which has jurisdiction over the place where the court to which the judge who received the request for detention belongs is located. machine translation, not official **第二項** 検察官又は司法警察員が前項の規定による教示をした被疑者については、当該事件について重ねて前条の規定による教示をすることを要しない。 suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-2 With regard to a suspect who has been informed by a public prosecutor or judicial police officer pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it is not necessary to inform the suspect again of the matters under the provisions of the preceding Article for that case. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-4161-62/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-1/par-1/item-1 - suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-1 - suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-2: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4161-62/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-4/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第七条第一項（第二条の規定による刑事訴訟法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-7/par-1 --- ## 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-20261106T054114-021, 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