# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五百十三条の二 (Article 513-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513-2. 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: 第五百十三条の二 (Article 513-2) — address `art-513-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513-2 - 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. --- ### 第五百十三条の二 art-513-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513-2 **第一項** 正当な理由がなく、第五百九条第一項又は第五百十一条の二第一項の規定による電磁的記録提供命令に違反したときは、その違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は三百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-513-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513-2/par-1 When, without a justifiable reason, an order to provide electronic or magnetic records under Article 509, paragraph (1) or Article 511-2, paragraph (1) is violated, the person who committed the violation is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 3,000,000 yen. machine translation, not official **第二項** 法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関して、前項の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対しても同項の罰金刑を科する。 art-513-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513-2/par-2 If the representative of a corporation, or the representative, employee, or other worker of a corporation or of any person, has committed the violation referred to in the preceding paragraph with regard to the business of the corporation or the person, the corporation or the person is to be subject to the fine prescribed in that paragraph in addition to the offender being subject to punishment. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-513-2/par-1: 第五百九条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第五百九条第一項 (Article 509, paragraph (1)), art-509/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-509/par-1 - art-513-2/par-1: 第五百十一条の二第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第五百十一条の二第一項 (Article 511-2, paragraph (1)), art-511-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-511-2/par-1 - art-513-2/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条の二第一項 (Article 513-2, paragraph (1)), art-513-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第五百十三条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-513-2/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-004, translated 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-018, 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