# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四十条 (Article 40) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-40. 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: 第四十条 (Article 40) — address `art-40` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条 art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-40 **第一項** 弁護人は、公訴の提起後は、裁判所において、訴訟に関する書類（刑事確定訴訟記録法（昭和六十二年法律第六十四号）第二条第一項に規定する訴訟の記録（訴訟終結後のものに限る。）を含む。第四十七条を除き、以下同じ。）及び証拠物を閲覧し、及び謄写することができる。ただし、証拠物を謄写するについては、裁判長の許可を受けなければならない。 art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-40/par-1 A defense counsel may, after the institution of prosecution, inspect and copy documents relating to the trial (including the records of litigation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Final Criminal Case Records (Act No. 64 of 1987) (limited to those after the conclusion of the trial); the same applies hereinafter except in Article 47) and articles of evidence in a court; provided, however, that the defense counsel must obtain permission from the presiding judge when copying the articles of evidence. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、第百五十七条の六第五項に規定する記録媒体は、謄写することができない。 art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-40/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the recording medium provided in Article 157-6, paragraph (5) may not be copied. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-40/par-1: 刑事確定訴訟記録法（昭和六十二年法律第六十四号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 362AC0000000064, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-40/par-1: 第四十七条 → 刑事訴訟法 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-47 - art-40/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四十条第一項 (Article 40, paragraph (1)), art-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-40/par-1 - art-40/par-2: 第百五十七条の六第五項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百五十七条の六第五項 (Article 157-6, paragraph (5)), art-157-6/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-157-6/par-5 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-40/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七十一条の六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-271-6/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七十一条の六第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-271-6/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百九十九条の六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-299-6/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百九十九条の六第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-299-6/par-2 --- ## 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-20261106T054114-001, 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