# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百九十九条 (Article 499) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499. 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: 第四百九十九条 (Article 499) — address `art-499` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四百九十九条 art-499 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499 **第一項** 押収物の還付を受けるべき者の所在が判らないため、又はその他の事由によつて、その物を還付することができない場合には、検察官は、その旨を政令で定める方法によつて公告しなければならない。 art-499/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-1 If it is unable to return a seized article as the whereabouts of the person who is to receive the seized article returned is unknown or on any other grounds, a public prosecutor must give public notice to that effect by the means provided by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二百二十二条第一項において準用する第百二十三条第一項若しくは第百二十四条第一項の規定又は第二百二十条第二項の規定により押収物を還付しようとするときも、前項と同様とする。この場合において、同項中「検察官」とあるのは、「検察官又は司法警察員」とする。 art-499/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-2 The preceding paragraph also applies when a seized article is to be returned pursuant to the provisions of Article 123, paragraph (1) or Article 124, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 222, paragraph (1) or the provisions of Article 220, paragraph (2). In this case, the term "public prosecutor" in the same paragraph is replaced with "public prosecutor or a judicial police officer." Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定による公告をした日から六箇月以内に還付の請求がないときは、その物は、国庫に帰属する。 art-499/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-3 When a request for return of a seized article is not made within six months from the day on which public notice is given pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the article vests in the national treasury. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前項の期間内でも、価値のない物は、これを廃棄し、保管に不便な物は、これを公売してその代価を保管することができる。 art-499/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-4 Even within the period referred to in the preceding paragraph, articles of no value may be discarded, and articles that are inconvenient for storage may be sold at a public auction and the proceeds received may be kept in safekeeping. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-499/par-2: 第二百二十二条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十二条第一項 (Article 222, paragraph (1)), art-222/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-222/par-1 - art-499/par-2: 第百二十三条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百二十三条第一項 (Article 123, paragraph (1)), art-123/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-123/par-1 - art-499/par-2: 第百二十四条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百二十四条第一項 (Article 124, paragraph (1)), art-124/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-124/par-1 - art-499/par-2: 第二百二十条第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十条第二項 (Article 220, paragraph (2)), art-220/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-220/par-2 - art-499/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条第一項 (Article 499, paragraph (1)), art-499/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-1 - art-499/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条第一項 (Article 499, paragraph (1)), art-499/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-1 - art-499/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条第二項 (Article 499, paragraph (2)), art-499/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-2 - art-499/par-4: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条第三項 (Article 499, paragraph (3)), art-499/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-3 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499/par-4 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十九条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-499-2/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第十一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-11 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第十二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-12 - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条第十三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513/par-13 --- ## 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