# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五十一条 (Article 51) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-51. 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51) — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条 art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-51 **第一項** 検察官、被告人又は弁護人は、公判調書の記載の正確性につき異議を申し立てることができる。異議の申立があつたときは、その旨を調書に記載しなければならない。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-51/par-1 A public prosecutor, the defendant or defense counsel may raise an objection to the accuracy of trial records. If such an objection is raised, said objection must be recorded in the trial records. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A public prosecutor, the accused or defense counsel may raise an objection to the accuracy of trial records. If such an objection is raised, said objection must be recorded in the trial records." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項の異議の申立ては、遅くとも当該審級における最終の公判期日後十四日以内にこれをしなければならない。ただし、第四十八条第三項ただし書の規定により判決を宣告する公判期日後に整理された調書については、整理ができた日から十四日以内にこれをすることができる。 art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-51/par-2 The objection prescribed in the preceding paragraph must be raised within 14 days after the last trial date of that instance at the latest; provided however, that with regard to trial records completed after the trial date pronouncing the judgment set forth in the provisions of the proviso to Article 48, paragraph (3), objection may be raised within 14 days after completion of the trial records. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-51/par-1 - art-51/par-2: 第四十八条第三項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四十八条第三項 (Article 48, paragraph (3)), art-48/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-48/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第五十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-51/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 51, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/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