# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百十八条 (Article 118) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-118. 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: 第百十八条 (Article 118) — address `art-118` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-118 - 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. --- ### 第百十八条 art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-118 **第一項** 差押状又は捜索状の執行を中止する場合において必要があるときは、執行が終わるまでその場所を閉鎖し、又は看守者を置くことができる。 art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-118/par-1 When the executing officer suspends the execution of a seizure warrant or search warrant and it is necessary, that execution officer may shut down the place under execution or put the place under guard until the execution has been completed. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百二十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-127/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第百四十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-142/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/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 - 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