# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百四十七条 (Article 147) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-147. 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: 第百四十七条 (Article 147) — address `art-147` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-147 - 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. --- ### 第百四十七条 art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-147 **第一項** 何人も、左に掲げる者が刑事訴追を受け、又は有罪判決を受ける虞のある証言を拒むことができる。 art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-147/par-1 Any person may refuse to give testimony when there is a concern that such testimony may result in criminal prosecution or conviction against: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 自己の配偶者、三親等内の血族若しくは二親等内の姻族又は自己とこれらの親族関係があつた者 art-147/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-147/par-1/item-1 said person's spouse, blood relatives within the third degree of kinship or relatives by affinity within the second degree of kinship or a person who formerly had such relationship with said person; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 自己の後見人、後見監督人又は保佐人 art-147/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-147/par-1/item-2 said person's guardian, the supervisor of said person's guardian or said person's curator; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 自己を後見人、後見監督人又は保佐人とする者 art-147/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-147/par-1/item-3 a person for whom said person is a guardian, supervisor of a guardian or a curator. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百四十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-148/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06