# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第九十七条 (Article 97) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97. 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97) — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条 art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97 **第一項** 上訴の提起期間内の事件でまだ上訴の提起がないものについて、勾留の期間を更新し、勾留を取り消し、又は保釈若しくは勾留の執行停止をし、若しくはこれを取り消すべき場合には、原裁判所が、その決定をしなければならない。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97/par-1 With respect to cases where the time limit for filing an appeal has not yet expired and an appeal has not yet been filed, rulings to renew the period of detention, rescind the detention, bail the defendant, suspend the execution of detention, or rescind the bail or the suspension of execution of detention must be made by the original court. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With respect to cases where the time limit for filing an appeal has not yet expired and an appeal has not yet been filed, rulings to renew the period of detention, rescind the detention, bail the accused, suspend the execution of detention, or rescind the bail or the suspension of execution of detention must be made by the original court." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 上訴中の事件で訴訟記録が上訴裁判所に到達していないものについて前項の決定をすべき裁判所は、裁判所の規則の定めるところによる。 art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97/par-2 With respect to cases where an appeal has been filed but the case records have not arrived at the appellate court, the court that is to make a ruling in the preceding paragraph is as provided by the Rules of Court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定は、勾留の理由の開示をすべき場合にこれを準用する。 art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the disclosure of the grounds for detention. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-97/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97/par-1 - art-97/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97/par-1 - art-97/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十七条第二項 (Article 97, paragraph (2)), art-97/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第九十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第九十七条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-97/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 97, 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