# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-15. 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: 少年法 (Juveniles Act), 昭和二十三年法律第百六十八号 - English title "Juveniles Act": 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（検証、押収、捜索等） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-15 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. --- ### 第十五条（検証、押収、捜索等） — Inspection, Seizure, Search, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-15 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、検証、押収、捜索又は電磁的記録提供命令をすることができる。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-15/par-1 The family court may conduct an inspection, seizure, or search, or issue an order to provide electronic or magnetic records. machine translation, not official **第二項** 刑事訴訟法中、裁判所の行う検証、押収、捜索及び電磁的記録提供命令に関する規定は、保護事件の性質に反しない限り、前項の場合について準用する。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-15/par-2 The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure concerning inspection, seizure, search, and order to provide electronic or magnetic records to be conducted by the court, apply mutatis mutandis to the case stated in the preceding paragraph, unless contrary to the nature of the protection case. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-15/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-15/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第六条の五第一項（押収、捜索、検証、鑑定嘱託等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-6-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-6-5/par-1 - 少年法 第十五条第二項（検証、押収、捜索等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-15/par-2 - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-13/par-2 - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十三条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-13/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-13/par-2/item-1 - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十三条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-13/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-13/par-2/item-2 - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十三条第二項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-13/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-13/par-2/item-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 少年法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000168/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Juveniles Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch juvenile-act-20261102T172711-001, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02