# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第五十三条の二 (Article 53-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53-2. 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: 第五十三条の二 (Article 53-2) — address `art-53-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53-2 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十三条の二 art-53-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53-2 **第一項** 訴訟に関する書類及び押収物については、行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律（平成十一年法律第四十二号）及び独立行政法人等の保有する情報の公開に関する法律（平成十三年法律第百四十号）の規定は、適用しない。 art-53-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53-2/par-1 The provisions of the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (Act No. 42 of 1999) and the Act on Access to Information Held by Independent Administrative Agencies (Act No. 140 of 2001) do not apply to documents relating to trials and seized articles. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (Act No. 42 of 1999) and the Act on Access to Information Held by Independent Administrative Agencies (Act No. 40 of 2001) do not apply to documents relating to trials and seized articles." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 訴訟に関する書類及び押収物に記録されている個人情報については、個人情報の保護に関する法律（平成十五年法律第五十七号）第五章第四節の規定は、適用しない。 art-53-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53-2/par-2 The provisions of Chapter V, Section 4 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act No. 57 of 2003) do not apply to personal information recorded in documents relating to trials and seized articles. machine translation, not official **第三項** 訴訟に関する書類については、公文書等の管理に関する法律（平成二十一年法律第六十六号）第二章の規定は、適用しない。この場合において、訴訟に関する書類についての同法第四章の規定の適用については、同法第十四条第一項中「国の機関（行政機関を除く。以下この条において同じ。）」とあり、及び同法第十六条第一項第三号中「国の機関（行政機関を除く。）」とあるのは、「国の機関」とする。 art-53-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53-2/par-3 The provisions of Chapter II of the Public Records and Archives Management Act (Act No. 66 of 2009) do not apply to documents relating to trials. In this case, with regard to application of the provisions of Chapter IV of the same Act to documents relating to trials, "state organ (except for administrative organs; the same applies hereinafter in this Article)" in the text of Article 14, paragraph (1) of the same Act and the "state organ (except for administrative organs)" in the text of Article 16, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the same Act are "state organ". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 押収物については、公文書等の管理に関する法律の規定は、適用しない。 art-53-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-53-2/par-4 The Public Records and Archives Management Act does not apply to seized articles. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-53-2/par-3: 同法第十四条第一項 → e-Gov law 421AC0000000066, 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-53-2/par-3: 同法第十六条第一項第三号 → e-Gov law 421AC0000000066, 第十六条第一項第三号 (Article 16, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-16/par-1/item-3 — not held in this collection --- ## 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 53-2, 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-001, 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