# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第六十九条 (Article 69) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-69. 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: 第六十九条 (Article 69) — address `art-69` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-69 - 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. --- ### 第六十九条 art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-69 **第一項** 裁判長は、急速を要する場合には、第五十七条乃至第六十二条、第六十五条、第六十六条及び前条に規定する処分をし、又は合議体の構成員にこれをさせることができる。 art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-69/par-1 The presiding judge may, in cases requiring urgency, take the measures prescribed in Articles 57 to 62, Articles 65 and 66 and the preceding Article, or commission such measures to the judge of a panel. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-69/par-1: 第五十七条乃至第六十二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第五十七条 (Article 57), art-57 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-57 - art-69/par-1: 第五十七条乃至第六十二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第五十八条 (Article 58), art-58 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-58 - art-69/par-1: 第五十七条乃至第六十二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第五十九条 (Article 59), art-59 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-59 - art-69/par-1: 第五十七条乃至第六十二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十条 (Article 60), art-60 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-60 - art-69/par-1: 第五十七条乃至第六十二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十一条 (Article 61), art-61 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-61 - art-69/par-1: 第五十七条乃至第六十二条 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十二条 (Article 62), art-62 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-62 - art-69/par-1: 第六十五条 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十五条 (Article 65), art-65 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-65 - art-69/par-1: 第六十六条 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十六条 (Article 66), art-66 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-66 - art-69/par-1: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 第六十八条 (Article 68), art-68 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-68 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06