# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百四十五条の四 (Article 345-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-4. 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: 第三百四十五条の四 (Article 345-4) — address `art-345-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-4 - 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. --- ### 第三百四十五条の四 art-345-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-4 **第一項** 裁判所は、第三百四十五条の二の規定による決定の理由がなくなつたと認めるときは、検察官、当該決定を受けた者若しくはその弁護人、法定代理人、保佐人、配偶者、直系の親族若しくは兄弟姉妹の請求により、又は職権で、決定で、当該決定を取り消さなければならない。 art-345-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-4/par-1 When the court finds that the grounds for the ruling under Article 345-2 no longer exist, it must make a ruling to rescind that ruling, upon the request of the public prosecutor, the person who has received that ruling, or that person's defense counsel, legal representative, curator, spouse, lineal relative or sibling, or ex officio. machine translation, not official **第二項** 裁判所は、検察官の請求による場合を除いて、前項の規定による決定をするときは、あらかじめ、検察官の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-345-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-4/par-2 Except where the ruling is made upon the request of the public prosecutor, the court must hear the opinion of the public prosecutor in advance when making a ruling under the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-345-4/par-1: 第三百四十五条の二 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十五条の二 (Article 345-2), art-345-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-2 - art-345-4/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十五条の四第一項 (Article 345-4, paragraph (1)), art-345-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-4/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十五条の四第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-345-4/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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-20261106T054114-013, 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