# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百九十七条 (Article 497) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-497. 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: 第四百九十七条 (Article 497) — address `art-497` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-497 - 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. --- ### 第四百九十七条 art-497 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-497 **第一項** 没収を執行した後三箇月以内に、権利を有する者が没収物の交付を請求したときは、検察官は、破壊し、又は廃棄すべき物を除いては、これを交付しなければならない。 art-497/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-497/par-1 In cases where a person who has the right to a confiscated article files a request for delivery of said article within three months of confiscation being executed, except for those articles which are to be destroyed or abandoned, the public prosecutor shall deliver said article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 没収物を処分した後前項の請求があつた場合には、検察官は、公売によつて得た代価を交付しなければならない。 art-497/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-497/par-2 In cases where the request set forth in the preceding paragraph is made after the confiscated article has been disposed, the public prosecutor shall deliver the proceeds obtained in the public auctioning of said article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-497/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十七条第一項 (Article 497, paragraph (1)), art-497/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-497/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-497/par-2 --- ## 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