# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（裁判所等に対する申述等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5071-39/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（裁判所等に対する申述等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Statements, Etc. to Courts, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-39/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-5 **第一項** suppl-5071-39/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-5/par-1 **第四項** 法務大臣、国家公安委員会、厚生労働大臣、農林水産大臣、経済産業大臣、国土交通大臣、環境大臣、防衛大臣及び財務大臣は、第二項の主務省令を定めるに当たっては、刑事手続における情報通信技術の活用の段階的かつ円滑な推進に資するため、その範囲が逓減するよう適切に定めるものとする。 suppl-5071-39/art-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-5/par-4 When specifying the order of the competent ministry under paragraph (2), the Minister of Justice, the National Public Safety Commission, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Minister of the Environment, the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Finance are to specify it appropriately so that its scope progressively narrows, in order to contribute to the stepwise and smooth promotion of the use of information and communications technology in criminal proceedings. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261106T054114-026, 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