# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-41. 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（司法警察員の送致） — address `art-41` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-41 - 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. --- ### 第四十一条（司法警察員の送致） — (Referral by a Judicial Police Officer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-41 **第一項** 司法警察員は、少年の被疑事件について捜査を遂げた結果、罰金以下の刑にあたる犯罪の嫌疑があるものと思料するときは、これを家庭裁判所に送致しなければならない。犯罪の嫌疑がない場合でも、家庭裁判所の審判に付すべき事由があると思料するときは、同様である。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-41/par-1 If a judicial police officer, as a result of the investigation of a suspected juvenile case, deems that there is a suspicion of a crime punishable by a fine or less, they must refer the case to a family court. This also applies if a judicial police officer deems that there are grounds for referring the case to a family court for trial and decision, even if there is no suspicion of a crime having been committed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 附則第三条第一項（司法警察員の送致に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/suppl-5031-47/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-5031-47/art-3/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02