# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百十七条 (Article 117) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-117. 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: 第百十七条 (Article 117) — address `art-117` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-117 - 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. --- ### 第百十七条 art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-117 **第一項** 次に掲げる場所で差押状又は捜索状の執行をするについては、前条第一項に規定する制限によることを要しない。 art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-117/par-1 A seizure warrant or a search warrant is not necessarily executed under restriction provided in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article in the following places: machine translation, not official **一** 賭博、富くじ又は風俗を害する行為に常用されるものと認められる場所 art-117/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-117/par-1/item-1 places recognized as being frequently used for gambling, private lotteries or acts prejudicial to public morals; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 旅館、飲食店その他夜間でも公衆が出入りすることができる場所。ただし、公開した時間内に限る。 art-117/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-117/par-1/item-2 hotels, restaurants or other places where the public is able to enter and leave at night; provided, however, that this applies only to searches and seizure executed during hours in which those places are open to the public. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-117/par-1: 前条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百十六条第一項 (Article 116, paragraph (1)), art-116/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-116/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百三十条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-130/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-4 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第十二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-12 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第八項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-8 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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-20261106T054114-004, 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