# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百十六条の十三 (Article 316-13) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13. 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: 第三百十六条の十三 (Article 316-13) — address `art-316-13` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百十六条の十三 art-316-13 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13 **第一項** 検察官は、事件が公判前整理手続に付されたときは、その証明予定事実（公判期日において証拠により証明しようとする事実をいう。以下同じ。）を記載した書面を、裁判所に提出し、及び被告人又は弁護人に送付しなければならない。この場合においては、当該書面には、証拠とすることができず、又は証拠としてその取調べを請求する意思のない資料に基づいて、裁判所に事件について偏見又は予断を生じさせるおそれのある事項を記載することができない。 art-316-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-1 When a case is put into a pretrial arrangement proceeding, the public prosecutor must submit documents in which facts planned to be proven are described ("facts planned to be proven" means the facts which are planned to be proven by evidence on the trial date; the same applies hereinafter) to the court and must also send them to the defendant or the defense counsel. In this case, the public prosecutor may not describe in the documents any item from which prejudice or a preconception of the case is likely to arise based on materials which are not qualified for evidence or which are not intended to be requested for examination in court. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a case is put into a pretrial arrangement proceeding, the public prosecutor must submit documents in which facts planned to be proven are described ("facts planned to be proven" means the facts which are planned to be proven by evidence on the trial date; the same applies hereinafter) to the court and must also send them to the accused or the defense counsel. In this case, the public prosecutor may not describe any item from which prejudice or a preconception of the case is likely to arise based on materials which are not qualified for evidence or which are not intended to be requested for examination in court, described in the documents." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 検察官は、前項の証明予定事実を証明するために用いる証拠の取調べを請求しなければならない。 art-316-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-2 The public prosecutor must request the examination of evidence which is to be used to prove facts planned to be proven prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定により証拠の取調べを請求するについては、第二百九十九条第一項の規定は適用しない。 art-316-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-3 Article 299, paragraph (1) does not apply to the request for the examination of evidence prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 裁判所は、検察官及び被告人又は弁護人の意見を聴いた上で、第一項の書面の提出及び送付並びに第二項の請求の期限を定めるものとする。 art-316-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-4 The court is to, upon hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the defendant or the defense counsel, set a deadline for the submission and delivery of the documents prescribed in paragraph (1) and the request prescribed in paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court is to, upon hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor and the accused or the defense counsel, set a deadline for the submission and delivery of the documents prescribed in paragraph (1) and the request prescribed in paragraph (2)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-316-13/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十三第一項 (Article 316-13, paragraph (1)), art-316-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-1 - art-316-13/par-3: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十三第二項 (Article 316-13, paragraph (2)), art-316-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-2 - art-316-13/par-3: 第二百九十九条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百九十九条第一項 (Article 299, paragraph (1)), art-299/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-299/par-1 - art-316-13/par-4: 第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十三第一項 (Article 316-13, paragraph (1)), art-316-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-1 - art-316-13/par-4: 第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十三第二項 (Article 316-13, paragraph (2)), art-316-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-2 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十三第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十三第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-13/par-4 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-14/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-16/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-17/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の十七第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-17/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十一第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-21/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十一第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-21/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-22/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百十六条の二十二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-316-22/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 316-13, 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 (刑事訴訟法), Article 316-13, 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06