# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第九十八条 (Article 98) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98. 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: 第九十八条 (Article 98) — address `art-98` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九十八条 art-98 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98 **第一項** 保釈若しくは勾留の執行停止を取り消す決定があつたとき、又は勾留の執行停止の期間が満了したときは、検察事務官、司法警察職員又は刑事施設職員は、検察官の指揮により、勾留状の謄本及び保釈若しくは勾留の執行停止を取り消す決定の謄本又は期間を指定した勾留の執行停止の決定の謄本を被告人に示してこれを刑事施設に収容しなければならない。 art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-1 If a ruling to rescind bail or the suspension of execution of detention has been made, or if the term of suspension of detention has expired, a public prosecutor's assistant officer, judicial police official or an official of the penal institution must, under the direction of a public prosecutor, commit the defendant in a penal institution after showing said defendant a transcript of the detention warrant and a transcript of the written ruling rescinding bail or the suspension of execution of detention or a transcript of the written ruling on suspension for a designated term of execution of detention. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a ruling to rescind bail or the suspension of execution of detention has been made, or if the term of suspension of detention has expired, a public prosecutor's assistant officer, judicial police official or an official of the penal institution must, under the direction of a public prosecutor, commit the accused in an penal institution after showing said accused a transcript of the detention warrant and a transcript of the written ruling rescinding bail or the suspension of execution of detention or a transcript of the written ruling on suspension for a designated term of execution of detention." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第二項** 前項の書面を所持しないためこれを示すことができない場合において、急速を要するときは、同項の規定にかかわらず、検察官の指揮により、被告人に対し保釈若しくは勾留の執行停止が取り消された旨又は勾留の執行停止の期間が満了した旨を告げて、これを刑事施設に収容することができる。ただし、その書面は、できる限り速やかにこれを示さなければならない。 art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-2 When said officer or official is unable to show the documents in the preceding paragraph to the defendant because said person does not have the documents in their possession and in cases requiring urgency, said person may, notwithstanding the preceding paragraph and under the direction of a public prosecutor, commit the defendant in a penal institution after notifying the defendant that the ruling to grant bail or to suspend the execution of detention has been rescinded, or that the term of suspension of execution of detention has expired; provided however, that the documents must be shown as promptly as possible. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When said officer or official is unable to show the documents in the preceding paragraph to the accused because said person does not have the documents in their possession and in cases requiring urgency, said person may, notwithstanding the preceding paragraph and under the direction of a public prosecutor, commit the accused in penal institution immediately after notifying the accused that the ruling to grant bail or to suspend the execution of detention has been rescinded, or that the term of suspension of execution of detention has expired; provided however, that the documents must be shown as promptly as possible." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb **第三項** 第七十一条の規定は、前二項の規定による収容についてこれを準用する。 art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-3 The provisions of Article 71 apply mutatis mutandis to the commitment in the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-98/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条第一項 (Article 98, paragraph (1)), art-98/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-1 - art-98/par-3: 第七十一条 → 刑事訴訟法 第七十一条 (Article 71), art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-71 - art-98/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条第一項 (Article 98, paragraph (1)), art-98/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-1 - art-98/par-3: 前二項 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条第二項 (Article 98, paragraph (2)), art-98/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 第百六十七条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-167-2/par-2 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百二十四条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-224-2/par-1 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七十一条の八第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-271-8/par-5 - 刑事訴訟法 第二百七十一条の八第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-271-8/par-6 - 刑事訴訟法 第三百四十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-343/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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 98, 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 (刑事訴訟法), Article 98, paragraph (2) — 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