# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百八条 (Article 108) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108. 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: 刑事訴訟法 (Code of Criminal Procedure), 昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号 - English title "Code of Criminal Procedure": 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: 第百八条 (Article 108) — address `art-108` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第百八条 art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108 **第一項** 差押状又は捜索状は、検察官の指揮によつて、検察事務官又は司法警察職員がこれを執行する。ただし、裁判所が被告人の保護のため必要があると認めるときは、裁判長は、裁判所書記官又は司法警察職員にその執行を命ずることができる。 art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108/par-1 The seizure warrant or search warrant is executed by a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official under the direction of a public prosecutor; provided however, that when the court deems it necessary for the protection of the defendant, the presiding judge may order a court clerk or a judicial police official to execute said warrant. machine translation, not official **第二項** 裁判所は、差押状又は捜索状の執行に関し、その執行をする者に対し書面で適当と認める指示をすることができる。 art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108/par-2 The court may, with regard to the execution of a seizure warrant or search warrant, give instructions in writing that it finds appropriate to the person who executes it. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の指示は、合議体の構成員にこれをさせることができる。 art-108/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108/par-3 The instructions in the preceding paragraph may be given by a judge of a panel. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The endorsement in the preceding paragraph may be given by a judge of a panel." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第四項** 第七十一条の規定は、差押状又は捜索状の執行について準用する。 art-108/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108/par-4 The provisions of Article 71 apply mutatis mutandis to the execution of a seizure warrant or search warrant. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-108/par-3: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百八条第二項 (Article 108, paragraph (2)), art-108/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108/par-2 - art-108/par-4: 第七十一条 → 刑事訴訟法 第七十一条 (Article 71), art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-71 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-108/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-472/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-7 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Code of Criminal Procedure, written 2026-11-06 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 刑事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-10-20 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000131/20261020_508AC0000000067), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure (刑事訴訟法), Article 108, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-003, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06