# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第九十八条の五 (Article 98-5)

This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-5. 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: 第九十八条の五 (Article 98-5) — address `art-98-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-20
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-5
- 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.

---

### 第九十八条の五
<sup>art-98-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-5</sup>

  **第一項**  監督者を選任する場合には、監督保証金額を定めなければならない。
  <sup>art-98-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-5/par-1</sup>
  When a supervisor is appointed, the amount of the supervision bond must be fixed.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  監督保証金額は、監督者として選任する者の資産及び被告人との関係その他の事情を考慮して、前条第四項の規定により命ずる事項及び被告人の出頭を保証するに足りる相当な金額でなければならない。
  <sup>art-98-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-5/par-2</sup>
  The amount of the supervision bond must be a reasonable amount sufficient to guarantee the matters ordered pursuant to paragraph (4) of the preceding Article and the defendant's appearance, taking into consideration the assets of the person to be appointed as a supervisor, the person's relationship with the defendant and other circumstances.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

---

## Cites
- art-98-5/par-2: 前条第四項 → 刑事訴訟法 第九十八条の四第四項 (Article 98-4, paragraph (4)), art-98-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-98-4/par-4

---

## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-002, 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