# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（第一条の規定による刑事訴訟法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4161-62/art-2`
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### 第二条（第一条の規定による刑事訴訟法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Code of Criminal Procedure Under the Provisions of Article 1
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4161-62/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  前条第一号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に裁判所に係属している事件の被告人については、第一条の規定による改正後の刑事訴訟法（以下「新法」という。）第三十六条の二及び第三十六条の三並びに第三十八条の三の規定は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4161-62/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-2/par-1</sup>
With regard to a defendant in a case pending before a court at the time of the enforcement of the provisions listed in item (i) of the preceding Article, the provisions of Articles 36-2 and 36-3 and Article 38-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") do not apply.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4161-62/art-2/par-1: 前条第一号 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-4161-62/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-1/par-1/item-1
- suppl-4161-62/art-2/par-1: 第三十六条の二 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十六条の二 (Article 36-2), art-36-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-2
- suppl-4161-62/art-2/par-1: 第三十六条の三 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十六条の三 (Article 36-3), art-36-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-36-3
- suppl-4161-62/art-2/par-1: 第三十八条の三 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十八条の三 (Article 38-3), art-38-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-38-3

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 刑事訴訟法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-62/art-1/par-1/item-1

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## 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-20261106T054114-021, 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
