# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百四十二条の三 (Article 342-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-3. 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: 第三百四十二条の三 (Article 342-3) — address `art-342-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-3 - 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. --- ### 第三百四十二条の三 art-342-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-3 **第一項** 拘禁刑以上の刑に処する判決の宣告を受けた者又はその弁護人、法定代理人、保佐人、配偶者、直系の親族若しくは兄弟姉妹は、前条の許可の請求をすることができる。 art-342-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-3/par-1 A person who has received the pronouncement of a judgment to impose imprisonment or a greater punishment, or the defense counsel, legal representative, curator, spouse, lineal relative or sibling of that person, may file a request for the permission under the preceding Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-342-3/par-1: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十二条の二 (Article 342-2), art-342-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-2 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十二条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-4/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十二条の四第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-4/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十二条の六第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-342-6/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十五条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-3/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百八十三条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-483-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-4/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第六条第一項（出国制限に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-28/art-6/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第八条第三項（刑事訴訟法に係る拘禁刑に関する経過措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-28/art-8/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第八条第五項（刑事訴訟法に係る拘禁刑に関する経過措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-28/art-8/par-5 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-012, 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