# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百八十四条の二 (Article 484-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-484-2. 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: 第四百八十四条の二 (Article 484-2) — address `art-484-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-484-2 - 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. --- ### 第四百八十四条の二 art-484-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-484-2 **第一項** 前条前段の規定による呼出しを受けた者が、正当な理由がなく、指定された日時及び場所に出頭しないときは、二年以下の拘禁刑に処する。 art-484-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-484-2/par-1 If a person who has been summoned under the provisions of the first sentence of the preceding Article fails to appear at the designated date, time and place without justifiable grounds, the person is punished by imprisonment for not more than two years. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-484-2/par-1: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百八十四条 (Article 484), art-484 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-484 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 附則第七条第一項（刑事訴訟法に係る罰則に関する経過措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5051-28/art-7/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-20261106T054114-016, 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