# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（再審開始の決定に対する不服申立て等に係る審理期間） — address `suppl-5081-67/art-5`
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### 第五条（再審開始の決定に対する不服申立て等に係る審理期間） — Examination Period Concerning Appeals against a Ruling to Commence a Retrial, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5081-67/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  近年における再審の手続に関する諸事情に鑑み、再審開始の決定に対する不服申立てであって附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の日（以下この条及び次条において「第二号施行日」という。）以後にされたもの又は当該決定に対する不服申立てに係る裁判所の決定に対する不服申立てであって第二号施行日以後にされたものについては、それぞれ事件が受理された日から一年以内にその係属する裁判所の決定がされるように努めなければならない。
<sup>suppl-5081-67/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-5/par-1</sup>
In light of recent circumstances concerning retrial procedures, with regard to an appeal against a ruling to commence a retrial that is filed on or after the day on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as the "item (ii) Effective Date"), or an appeal against a ruling of the court pertaining to an appeal against that ruling that is filed on or after the item (ii) Effective Date, the court before which the case is pending must endeavor to render its ruling within one year from the day on which the case was accepted.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5081-67/art-5/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-5081-67/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-1/par-1/item-2
- suppl-5081-67/art-5/par-1: この条 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-5081-67/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-5
- suppl-5081-67/art-5/par-1: 次条 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-5081-67/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-6

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 刑事訴訟法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-1/par-1/item-2
- 刑事訴訟法 附則第五条第一項（再審開始の決定に対する不服申立て等に係る審理期間） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5081-67/art-5/par-1

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## 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-20261106T054114-027, 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
