# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第二十六条の四 (Article 26-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4. 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: 第二十六条の四 (Article 26-4)（保護観察中の者に対する措置） — address `art-26-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4 - 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. --- ### 第二十六条の四（保護観察中の者に対する措置） — (Measures for a Person Under Probation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-26-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4 **第一項** 更生保護法（平成十九年法律第八十八号）第六十七条第二項の申請があつた場合において、家庭裁判所は、審判の結果、第二十四条第一項第一号の保護処分を受けた者がその遵守すべき事項を遵守せず、同法第六十七条第一項の警告を受けたにもかかわらず、なお遵守すべき事項を遵守しなかつたと認められる事由があり、その程度が重く、かつ、その保護処分によつては本人の改善及び更生を図ることができないと認めるときは、決定をもつて、第二十四条第一項第二号又は第三号の保護処分をしなければならない。 art-26-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4/par-1 For cases in which an application pursuant to the provisions of Article 67, paragraph (2) of the Offenders Rehabilitation Act (Act No. 88 of 2007) is filed, the family court, by a ruling, must conduct the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii), if the court, as a result of the trial and decision, finds that the person who is subject to the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (i), failed to comply with the matters to be complied with, and there are grounds that the person has continued to fail to comply with the matters to be complied with despite being admonished as prescribed in Article 67, paragraph (1) of that Act, and finds that the failure is so serious that the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent is not sufficient enough to improve or rehabilitate that person. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "For cases in which an application pursuant to the provisions of Article 67, paragraph (2) of the Offenders Rehabilitation Act (Act No. 88 of 2007) is filed, the family court, by a ruling, must conduct the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii), if the court, as a result of the trial and decision, finds that the person who is subject to the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (i), failed to comply with the matters to be complied, and there are grounds that the person has continued to fail to comply to the matters to be complied despite being admonished as prescribed in Article 67, paragraph (1) of that Act, and finds that the failure is so serious that the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent are not sufficient enough to improve or rehabilitate that person." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、前項の規定により二十歳以上の者に対して第二十四条第一項第三号の保護処分をするときは、その決定と同時に、本人が二十三歳を超えない期間内において、少年院に収容する期間を定めなければならない。 art-26-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4/par-2 When subjecting a person of 20 years of age or above to the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (iii) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the family court must specify, concurrently with the decision, the period of detention in a juvenile training school before they reach 23 years of age. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項に定めるもののほか、第一項の規定による保護処分に係る事件の手続は、その性質に反しない限り、第二十四条第一項の規定による保護処分に係る事件の手続の例による。 art-26-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4/par-3 Beyond what is stated in the preceding paragraph, the procedure of a case on disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), is to be governed by the procedure of the case concerned with the disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1), unless it contradicts its nature. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-26-4/par-1: 更生保護法（平成十九年法律第八十八号）第六十七条第二項 → e-Gov law 419AC0000000088, 第六十七条第二項 (Article 67, paragraph (2)), art-67/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-26-4/par-1: 第二十四条第一項第一号 → 少年法 第二十四条第一項第一号 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-24/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24/par-1/item-1 - art-26-4/par-1: 同法第六十七条第一項 → e-Gov law 419AC0000000088, 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-26-4/par-1: 第二十四条第一項第二号 → 少年法 第二十四条第一項第二号 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-24/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24/par-1/item-2 - art-26-4/par-1: 第三号 → 少年法 第二十四条第一項第三号 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-24/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24/par-1/item-3 - art-26-4/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第二十六条の四第一項 (Article 26-4, paragraph (1)), art-26-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4/par-1 - art-26-4/par-2: 第二十四条第一項第三号 → 少年法 第二十四条第一項第三号 (Article 24, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-24/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24/par-1/item-3 - art-26-4/par-3: 前項 → 少年法 第二十六条の四第二項 (Article 26-4, paragraph (2)), art-26-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4/par-2 - art-26-4/par-3: 第一項 → 少年法 第二十六条の四第一項 (Article 26-4, paragraph (1)), art-26-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4/par-1 - art-26-4/par-3: 第二十四条第一項 → 少年法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第二十六条の四第二項（保護観察中の者に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4/par-2 - 少年法 第二十六条の四第三項（保護観察中の者に対する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-26-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-4/par-3 - 少年法 第六十五条第二項（この法律の適用関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-65/par-2 - 少年法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-4191-68/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-4191-68/art-3/par-1 --- ## 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 26-4, paragraph (1) — 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