# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二百八十条 (Article 280) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280. 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: 第二百八十条 (Article 280) — address `art-280` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280 - 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. --- ### 第二百八十条 art-280 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280 **第一項** 公訴の提起があつた後第一回の公判期日までは、勾留に関する処分は、裁判官がこれを行う。 art-280/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280/par-1 From the institution of prosecution to the first trial date, a judge takes charge of the disposition concerning detention. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百九十九条若しくは第二百十条の規定により逮捕され、又は現行犯人として逮捕された被疑者でまだ勾留されていないものについて第二百四条又は第二百五条の時間の制限内に公訴の提起があつた場合には、裁判官は、速やかに、被告事件を告げ、これに関する陳述を聴き、勾留状を発しないときは、直ちにその釈放を命じなければならない。 art-280/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280/par-2 If a suspect who has been arrested pursuant to Article 199 or 210, or has been arrested as an offender caught in the act and has not yet been detained is prosecuted during the time limitations prescribed in Article 204 or 205, the judge must promptly notify the defendant of the facts charged, hear the defendant's statement and, unless issuing a detention warrant, must order release of the defendant immediately. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a suspect who has been arrested pursuant to Article 199 or 210, or has been arrested as an offender caught in the act and has not yet been detained is prosecuted during the time limitations prescribed in Articles 204 or 205, the judge must promptly notify the accused of the facts charged, hear the accused's statement and, unless issuing a detention warrant, must order release of the accused immediately." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第三項** 前二項の裁判官は、その処分に関し、裁判所又は裁判長と同一の権限を有する。 art-280/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280/par-3 The judge prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs has the same authority as the court or the presiding judge regarding the proceedings thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-280/par-2: 第百九十九条 → 刑事訴訟法 第百九十九条 (Article 199), art-199 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-199 - art-280/par-2: 第二百十条 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百十条 (Article 210), art-210 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-210 - art-280/par-2: 第二百四条 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百四条 (Article 204), art-204 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-204 - art-280/par-2: 第二百五条 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百五条 (Article 205), art-205 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-205 - art-280/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十条第一項 (Article 280, paragraph (1)), art-280/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280/par-1 - art-280/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十条第二項 (Article 280, paragraph (2)), art-280/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七十一条の八第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-271-8/par-1/item-5 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百八十条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-280/par-3 --- ## 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 280, paragraph (2) — 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