# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-33. 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（抗告審の裁判） — address `art-33` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-33 - 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. --- ### 第三十三条（抗告審の裁判） — (Judicial Decision of Second Instance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-33 **第一項** 抗告の手続がその規定に違反したとき、又は抗告が理由のないときは、決定をもつて、抗告を棄却しなければならない。 art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-33/par-1 If the procedure for an appeal violates the provisions, or if there are no grounds for an appeal, it must be dismissed by a ruling. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the procedure for an appeal violates the provisions, or if there are no grounds for an appeal, it must be dismissed by judicial decision." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb **第二項** 抗告が理由のあるときは、決定をもつて、原決定を取り消して、事件を原裁判所に差し戻し、又は他の家庭裁判所に移送しなければならない。 art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-33/par-2 If there are grounds for an appeal, the court must issue a ruling, revoke the ruling given in the prior instance, and remand the case to the court of prior instance, or transfer the case to another family court. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第十七条の二第四項（異議の申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-17-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-17-2/par-4 - 少年法 第三十五条第一項（再抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-35/par-1 - 少年法 第三十五条第二項（再抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-35/par-2 --- ## 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 33, 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 - 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