# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第六十六条 (Article 66) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66. 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: 第六十六条 (Article 66) — address `art-66` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条 art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66 **第一項** 裁判所は、被告人の現在地の地方裁判所、家庭裁判所又は簡易裁判所の裁判官に被告人の勾引を嘱託することができる。 art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66/par-1 The court may delegate a judge of the district court, family court or summary court of the present place of the defendant to subpoena said defendant. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court may delegate a judge of the district court, family court or summary court of the present place of the accused to subpoena said accused." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 受託裁判官は、受託の権限を有する他の地方裁判所、家庭裁判所又は簡易裁判所の裁判官に転嘱することができる。 art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66/par-2 A delegated judge may re-delegate a judge of another district court, family court or summary court, who has the competence to be delegated. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 受託裁判官は、受託事項について権限を有しないときは、受託の権限を有する他の地方裁判所、家庭裁判所又は簡易裁判所の裁判官に嘱託を移送することができる。 art-66/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66/par-3 A delegated judge may, when lacking the competence to handle the delegated particulars, transfer them to a judge of another district court, family court or summary court, who has the competence to handle said delegation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 嘱託又は移送を受けた裁判官は、勾引状を発しなければならない。 art-66/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66/par-4 A delegated judge or a judge who received a transfer must issue a subpoena. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第六十四条の規定は、前項の勾引状についてこれを準用する。この場合においては、勾引状に嘱託によつてこれを発する旨を記載しなければならない。 art-66/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66/par-5 The provisions of Article 64 apply mutatis mutandis to the subpoena prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In this case, a statement that the subpoena is issued through delegation must be on the subpoena. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66/par-5: 第六十四条 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十四条 (Article 64), art-64 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-64 - art-66/par-5: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十六条第四項 (Article 66, paragraph (4)), art-66/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66/par-4 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第六十六条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66/par-5 - 刑事訴訟法 第六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-67/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第六十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-69/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第七十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-73/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第七十六条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-76/par-4 - 刑事訴訟法 第百三十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-136/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第百五十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-153/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七十一条の八第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-271-8/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-8/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第四百九十四条の十二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-494-12/par-3 --- ## 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 66, 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