# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-23. 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（審判開始後保護処分に付しない場合） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（審判開始後保護処分に付しない場合） — (Cases that Do Not Follow the Disposition for Rehabilitation of an Adjudicated Delinquent After Commencement of Trial and Decision) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-23 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、審判の結果、第十八条又は第二十条にあたる場合であると認めるときは、それぞれ、所定の決定をしなければならない。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-23/par-1 When a case is found to fall under Article 18 or 20 as a result of the trial and decision, the family court must give a ruling as prescribed in these Articles accordingly. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、審判の結果、保護処分に付することができず、又は保護処分に付する必要がないと認めるときは、その旨の決定をしなければならない。 art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-23/par-2 If it is found that as a result of the trial and decision, the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent cannot be carried out, or it is unnecessary, the family court must make a ruling to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If it is found that as a result of the trial and decision, the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicate delinquent cannot be carried out, or it is unnecessary, the family court must make a ruling to that effect." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb **第三項** 第十九条第二項の規定は、家庭裁判所の審判の結果、本人が二十歳以上であることが判明した場合に準用する。 art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-23/par-3 The provisions of Article 19, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis when the person in question is found to be 20 years of age or older as a result of the family court trial and decision. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-1: 第十八条 → 少年法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-18 - art-23/par-1: 第二十条 → 少年法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-20 - art-23/par-3: 第十九条第二項 → 少年法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-19/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第二十四条第一項（保護処分の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24/par-1 - 少年法 第二十四条の二第一項（没取） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24-2/par-1 - 少年法 第二十四条の二第二項（没取） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24-2/par-2 - 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 第四十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-45-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-45-2/par-1 - 少年法 第四十五条の三第一項（訴訟費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-45-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-45-3/par-1 - 少年法 第六十四条第一項（保護処分についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-64/par-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 第十三条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-13/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-13/par-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Juveniles Act, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (少年法), Article 23, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), 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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02