# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百五十八条 (Article 458) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-458. 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: 第四百五十八条 (Article 458) — address `art-458` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-458 - 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. --- ### 第四百五十八条 art-458 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-458 **第一項** 非常上告が理由のあるときは、左の区別に従い、判決をしなければならない。 art-458/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-458/par-1 When there are grounds for extraordinary appeal, a judgment must be rendered according to the following classification: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 原判決が法令に違反したときは、その違反した部分を破棄する。但し、原判決が被告人のため不利益であるときは、これを破棄して、被告事件について更に判決をする。 art-458/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-458/par-1/item-1 When the original judgment was in violation of laws and regulations, the part of the judgment that violates any law or regulation shall be reversed; provided, however, that the court shall, when the original judgment was against the defendant, reverse it and render a further judgment on the charged case; and Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the original judgment was in violation of laws and regulations, the part of the judgment that violates any law or regulation shall be reversed; provided, however, that the court shall, when the original judgment was against the accused, render a further judgment on the charged case; and" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **二** 訴訟手続が法令に違反したときは、その違反した手続を破棄する。 art-458/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-458/par-1/item-2 When trial proceedings were in violation of laws and regulations, those proceedings shall be reversed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百五十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-459/par-1 --- ## 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 458, paragraph (1), item (i) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/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