# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百七十九条 (Article 479) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479. 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: 第四百七十九条 (Article 479) — address `art-479` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479 - 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. --- ### 第四百七十九条 art-479 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479 **第一項** 死刑の言渡を受けた者が心神喪失の状態に在るときは、法務大臣の命令によつて執行を停止する。 art-479/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-1 Where the person who has been sentenced to death is in a state of insanity, the execution shall be suspended by order of the Minister of Justice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 死刑の言渡を受けた女子が懐胎しているときは、法務大臣の命令によつて執行を停止する。 art-479/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-2 Where a woman who is sentenced to death is pregnant, the execution shall be suspended by order of the Minister of Justice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定により死刑の執行を停止した場合には、心神喪失の状態が回復した後又は出産の後に法務大臣の命令がなければ、執行することはできない。 art-479/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-3 In cases where execution of the death penalty has been suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the death penalty shall not be executed without an order from the Minister of Justice after the person has returned to a state of sanity or after such woman has given birth. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第四百七十五条第二項の規定は、前項の命令についてこれを準用する。この場合において、判決確定の日とあるのは、心神喪失の状態が回復した日又は出産の日と読み替えるものとする。 art-479/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-4 The provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 475 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the order referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, "the date when the judgment becomes final and binding" shall be read as "the date when the person has returned to a state of sanity or has given birth." Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-479/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十九条第一項 (Article 479, paragraph (1)), art-479/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-1 - art-479/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十九条第二項 (Article 479, paragraph (2)), art-479/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-2 - art-479/par-4: 第四百七十五条第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十五条第二項 (Article 475, paragraph (2)), art-475/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-475/par-2 - art-479/par-4: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十九条第三項 (Article 479, paragraph (3)), art-479/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百七十九条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-479/par-4 --- ## 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 - 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