# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三百五十条の十五 (Article 350-15)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第三百五十条の十五 (Article 350-15) — address `art-350-15`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-20
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-15
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### 第三百五十条の十五
<sup>art-350-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-15</sup>

    **第一項**  第三百五十条の二第一項の合意に違反して、検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員に対し、虚偽の供述をし又は偽造若しくは変造の証拠を提出した者は、五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
    <sup>art-350-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-15/par-1</sup>
    A person who has made a false statement or submitted evidence that is a counterfeit or an altered article to a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer or a judicial police official in violation of an agreement under Article 350-2, paragraph (1) is punished by imprisonment for not more than five years.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第二項**  前項の罪を犯した者が、当該合意に係る他人の刑事事件の裁判が確定する前であつて、かつ、当該合意に係る自己の刑事事件の裁判が確定する前に自白したときは、その刑を減軽し、又は免除することができる。
    <sup>art-350-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-15/par-2</sup>
    When a person who has committed the crime under the preceding paragraph confesses before both judgments on another person's criminal case and the person's criminal case pertaining to the agreement become final and binding, the confession may lead to the punishment being reduced or exculpate the offender.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-350-15/par-1: 第三百五十条の二第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の二第一項 (Article 350-2, paragraph (1)), art-350-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-2/par-1
- art-350-15/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の十五第一項 (Article 350-15, paragraph (1)), art-350-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-15/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の十二第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-12/par-2/item-2
- 刑事訴訟法 第三百五十条の十五第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-350-15/par-2

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## 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-20261106T054114-014, 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
