# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百二十四条 (Article 124) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-124. 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: 第百二十四条 (Article 124) — address `art-124` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-124 - 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. --- ### 第百二十四条 art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-124 **第一項** 押収した贓物で留置の必要がないものは、被害者に還付すべき理由が明らかなときに限り、被告事件の終結を待たないで、検察官及び被告人又は弁護人の意見を聴き、決定でこれを被害者に還付しなければならない。 art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-124/par-1 Seized property obtained through a property crime which does not need to be placed in custody must be ruled to be returned to the victim, only when the reason necessitating return to the victim is clear, without waiting for the conclusion of the case and after hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Seized property obtained through a property crime which does not need to be placed in custody must be ruled to be returned to the victim, only when the reason necessitating return to the victim is clear, notwithstanding the conclusion of the case and after hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the accused or the defense counsel." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項の規定は、民事訴訟の手続に従い、利害関係人がその権利を主張することを妨げない。 art-124/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-124/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not prevent interested parties from claiming their rights in accordance with the procedures of civil actions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-124/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百二十四条第一項 (Article 124, paragraph (1)), art-124/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-124/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百二十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-124/par-2 - 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 第四百九十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-2 --- ## 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 124, paragraph (1) — 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06