# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百四十八条 (Article 348) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-348. 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: 第三百四十八条 (Article 348) — address `art-348` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-348 - 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. --- ### 第三百四十八条 art-348 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-348 **第一項** 裁判所は、罰金、科料又は追徴を言い渡す場合において、判決の確定を待つてはその執行をすることができず、又はその執行をするのに著しい困難を生ずる虞があると認めるときは、検察官の請求により又は職権で、被告人に対し、仮に罰金、科料又は追徴に相当する金額を納付すべきことを命ずることができる。 art-348/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-348/par-1 If the court, in rendering a fine, petty fine or collection of a sum of equivalent value, deems that it will be impossible or difficult to execute the judgment should there be a delay until the judgment becomes final and binding, the court may, upon a request by the public prosecutor or ex officio, order the defendant to provisionally pay an amount equal to the fine, petty fine or collection of a sum of equivalent value. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the court, in rendering a fine, petty fine or collection of a sum of equivalent value, deems that it will be impossible or difficult to execute the judgment should there be a delay until the judgment becomes final and binding, the court may, upon a request by the public prosecutor or ex officio, order the accused to provisionally pay an amount equal to the fine, petty fine or collection of a sum of equivalent value." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 仮納付の裁判は、刑の言渡と同時に、判決でその言渡をしなければならない。 art-348/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-348/par-2 An order of provisional payment must be rendered at the same time as the rendition of punishment by a judgment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 仮納付の裁判は、直ちにこれを執行することができる。 art-348/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-348/par-3 A sentence for provisional payment may be executed immediately. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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 348, 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 — 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