# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百八十一条 (Article 481) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-481. 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: 第四百八十一条 (Article 481) — address `art-481` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-481 - 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. --- ### 第四百八十一条 art-481 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-481 **第一項** 前条の規定により刑の執行を停止した場合には、検察官は、刑の言渡を受けた者を監護義務者又は地方公共団体の長に引き渡し、病院その他の適当な場所に入れさせなければならない。 art-481/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-481/par-1 In cases where execution of a sentence is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the public prosecutor shall transfer the sentenced person to either a person under obligation to care for him/her or to the head of the local government, and have such a person deliver the sentenced person to a hospital or any other appropriate location. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In cases where execution of a sentence is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the public prosecutor shall transfer the sentenced person to either a person under obligation to care for him/her or to the head of the local government, and have such a person deliver the sentenced person to a hospital or any other appropriate location." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3740/tb **第二項** 刑の執行を停止された者は、前項の処分があるまでこれを刑事施設に留置し、その期間を刑期に算入する。 art-481/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-481/par-2 Until the measures under the preceding paragraph are taken, a person whose sentence has been suspended shall be detained in a penal institution, and the period of such detention shall be included in the term of his/her sentence. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-481/par-1: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百八十条 (Article 480), art-480 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-480 - art-481/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百八十一条第一項 (Article 481, paragraph (1)), art-481/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-481/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百八十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-481/par-2 --- ## 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 481, paragraph (1) — 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