# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百十八条 (Article 218) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218. 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: 第二百十八条 (Article 218) — address `art-218` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百十八条 art-218 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218 **第一項** 検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員は、犯罪の捜査をするについて必要があるときは、裁判官の発する令状により、差押え、捜索、電磁的記録提供命令又は検証をすることができる。この場合において、身体の検査は、身体検査令状によらなければならない。 art-218/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-1 Public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials may, when it is necessary for the investigation of an offense, upon a warrant issued by a judge, conduct a seizure or search, issue an order to provide electronic or magnetic records, or conduct an inspection. In this case, the inspection and examination of a person must be conducted upon a warrant for physical examination. machine translation, not official **第二項** 差し押さえるべき物が電子計算機であるときは、当該電子計算機に電気通信回線で接続している記録媒体であつて、当該電子計算機で作成若しくは変更をした電磁的記録又は当該電子計算機で変更若しくは消去をすることができることとされている電磁的記録を保管するために使用されていると認めるに足りる状況にあるものから、その電磁的記録を当該電子計算機又は他の記録媒体に複写した上、当該電子計算機又は当該他の記録媒体を差し押さえることができる。 art-218/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-2 Where the article to be seized is a computer, and with regard to a recording medium connected via telecommunication lines to such computer, it may be reasonably supposed that such recording medium was used to retain electronic or magnetic records, which have been made or altered using such computer or electronic or magnetic records which may be altered or erased using such computer, the computer or other recording medium may be seized after such electronic or magnetic records have been copied onto such computer or other recording medium. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員は、電磁的記録提供命令をする場合において、必要があるときは、裁判官の許可を受けて、当該電磁的記録提供命令を受ける者に対し、一年を超えない期間を定めて、みだりに当該電磁的記録提供命令を受けたこと及び当該電磁的記録提供命令により提供を命じられた電磁的記録を提供し又は提供しなかつたことを漏らしてはならない旨を命ずることができる。 art-218/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-3 When a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official issues an order to provide electronic or magnetic records, they may, if necessary, with the permission of a judge, order the person who is to receive that order to provide electronic or magnetic records, for a period set not exceeding one year, not to disclose without good reason the fact of having received that order to provide electronic or magnetic records or the fact of having provided or not provided the electronic or magnetic records ordered to be provided by that order to provide electronic or magnetic records. machine translation, not official **第四項** 身体の拘束を受けている被疑者の指紋若しくは足型を採取し、身長若しくは体重を測定し、又は写真を撮影するには、被疑者を裸にしない限り、第一項の令状によることを要しない。 art-218/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-4 When a suspect is placed under physical restraint, said suspect's fingerprints or a print of their feet may be taken, said suspect's height or weight may be measured and photographs of said suspect may be taken without the warrant set forth in paragraph (1), only when said suspect is not stripped naked. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a suspect is placed under physical restraint, said suspect's fingerprints or a print of their feet may be taken, said suspect's height or weight may be measured and photographs of said suspect may be taken without the warrant set forth in the paragraph (1), only when said suspect is not stripped naked." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第五項** 第一項の令状は、検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察員の請求により、これを発する。 art-218/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-5 The warrant set forth in paragraph (1) is issued upon the request of a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police officer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 第三項の許可の請求は、前項の請求をする際に、検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察員からしなければならない。 art-218/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-6 The request for the permission under paragraph (3) must be made by a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police officer when making the request under the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第七項** 検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員は、第三項の規定による命令をした場合において、その必要がなくなつたときは、自ら又は当該命令を受けた者の請求により、これを取り消さなければならない。 art-218/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-7 When a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official has issued an order under the provisions of paragraph (3) and the need for it no longer exists, they must rescind the order, either on their own initiative or upon the request of the person who received the order. machine translation, not official **第八項** 検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察員は、身体検査令状の請求をするには、身体の検査を必要とする理由及び身体の検査を受ける者の性別、健康状態その他裁判所の規則で定める事項を示さなければならない。 art-218/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-8 When a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police officer requests a warrant for an inspection and examination of a person, said public prosecutor, public prosecutor's assistant officer or judicial police officer must indicate the reason for the necessity of the inspection and examination, the sex and physical condition of the person to be inspected and examined and other particulars as provided in the Rules of Court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第九項** 裁判官は、身体の検査に関し、適当と認める条件を付することができる。 art-218/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-9 A judge may provide conditions that said judge deems appropriate for the inspection and examination of a person. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-218/par-4: 第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第一項 (Article 218, paragraph (1)), art-218/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-1 - art-218/par-5: 第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第一項 (Article 218, paragraph (1)), art-218/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-1 - art-218/par-6: 第三項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第三項 (Article 218, paragraph (3)), art-218/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-3 - art-218/par-6: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第五項 (Article 218, paragraph (5)), art-218/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-5 - art-218/par-7: 第三項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第三項 (Article 218, paragraph (3)), art-218/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-3 ## Cited by 23 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-4 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-5 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-6 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十八条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-218/par-7 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-219/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-219/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-219/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百十九条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-219/par-4 - 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 第二百二十二条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-6 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第八項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-8 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第九項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-9 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第十項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-10 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第十一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-11 - 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 第二百二十二条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百三十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-430/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 第五百十三条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-6 - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十一条第一項（対象電磁的記録の消去命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/art-11/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 505AC0000000067) - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十一条の二第一項（対象電磁的記録の複写不許可決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/art-11-2/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 505AC0000000067) --- ## 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 218, paragraph (4) — 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-20261106T054114-006, translated 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-006, translated 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-007, 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