# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第四十七条 (Article 47) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-47. 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: 第四十七条 (Article 47)（時効の停止） — address `art-47` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-47 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-47 - 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. --- ### 第四十七条（時効の停止） — (Suspension of Statute of Limitations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-47 **第一項** 第八条第一項前段の場合においては第二十一条の決定があつてから、第八条第一項後段の場合においては送致を受けてから、保護処分の決定が確定するまで、公訴の時効は、その進行を停止する。 art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-47/par-1 The statute of limitations for prosecution is suspended during the period from the date on which the ruling prescribed in Article 21 is given on the case prescribed in the first sentence of Article 8, paragraph (1), or from the date on which the case prescribed in the second sentence of Article 8, paragraph (1) was referred to a family court, to the date on which the ruling to subject disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent becomes final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、第二十一条の決定又は送致の後、本人が満二十歳に達した事件についても、これを適用する。 art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-47/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to cases in which the juvenile has reached 20 years of age, after the ruling or referral prescribed in Article 21. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-47/par-1: 第八条第一項 → 少年法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-8/par-1 - art-47/par-1: 第二十一条 → 少年法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-21 - art-47/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-47/par-1 - art-47/par-2: 第二十一条 → 少年法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-21 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第四十七条第二項（時効の停止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-47/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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02