# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第二十条 (Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-20. 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（検察官への送致） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（検察官への送致） — (Referral to a Public Prosecutor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-20 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、拘禁刑以上の刑に当たる罪の事件について、調査の結果、その罪質及び情状に照らして刑事処分を相当と認めるときは、決定をもつて、これを管轄地方裁判所に対応する検察庁の検察官に送致しなければならない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-20/par-1 The family court, by a ruling, must refer a case punishable by imprisonment or a heavier punishment to a public prosecutor at the public prosecutor's office that is the counterpart of the district court with jurisdiction over the case, if the criminal disposition of the case is found appropriate, as a result of the investigation, considering the nature and circumstances of the crime. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、家庭裁判所は、故意の犯罪行為により被害者を死亡させた罪の事件であつて、その罪を犯すとき十六歳以上の少年に係るものについては、同項の決定をしなければならない。ただし、調査の結果、犯行の動機及び態様、犯行後の情況、少年の性格、年齢、行状及び環境その他の事情を考慮し、刑事処分以外の措置を相当と認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-20/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the family court must make a ruling as prescribed in that paragraph for a case in which a juvenile who is 16 years of age or older committed an intentional criminal act that caused the death of a victim; provided, however, that this does not apply if the court finds any measures other than the criminal disposition more appropriate, as a result of the investigation, which considers motive for the offense, manner , circumstances or situation after the offense, the juvenile's character, age, conduct, environment and other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-20/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第二十条第一項 (Article 20, paragraph (1)), art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-20/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第四条第一項（判事補の職権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-4/par-1 - 少年法 第二十条第二項（検察官への送致） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-20/par-2 - 少年法 第二十三条第一項（審判開始後保護処分に付しない場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-23/par-1 - 少年法 第二十六条の二第一項（少年鑑別所収容の一時継続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-2/par-1 - 少年法 第四十五条第一項（検察官へ送致後の取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-45/par-1 - 少年法 第六十二条第一項（検察官への送致についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-1 - 少年法 第六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-67/par-1 - 少年法 第六十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-67/par-2 --- ## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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