# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百八十条 (Article 480) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-480. 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: 第四百八十条 (Article 480) — address `art-480` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-480 - 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. --- ### 第四百八十条 art-480 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-480 **第一項** 拘禁刑又は拘留の言渡しを受けた者が心神喪失の状態にあるときは、刑の言渡しをした裁判所に対応する検察庁の検察官又は刑の言渡しを受けた者の現在地を管轄する地方検察庁の検察官の指揮によつて、その状態が回復するまで執行を停止する。 art-480/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-480/par-1 When a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or penal detention is in a state of insanity, the execution of the sentence shall be suspended at the direction of either the public prosecutor of the public prosecutor's office which corresponds to the sentencing court or the public prosecutor of the local public prosecutor's office which has jurisdiction over the present location of the sentenced person, until such a time as said person recovers. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百八十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-481/par-1 --- ## 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-20261106T054114-015, 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