# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4221-26/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（経過措置） — address `suppl-4221-26/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4221-26/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4221-26/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4221-26/art-3 **第一項** 第二条の規定による改正後の刑事訴訟法（次項において「新法」という。）第二百五十条の規定は、この法律の施行の際既にその公訴の時効が完成している罪については、適用しない。 suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-1 The provisions of Article 250 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to as the "New Act" in the following paragraph) do not apply to a crime for which the statute of limitations for prosecution has already been completed at the time this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法第二百五十条第一項の規定は、刑法等の一部を改正する法律（平成十六年法律第百五十六号）附則第三条第二項の規定にかかわらず、同法の施行前に犯した人を死亡させた罪であって禁錮以上の刑に当たるもので、この法律の施行の際その公訴の時効が完成していないものについても、適用する。 suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 156 of 2004), the provisions of Article 250, paragraph (1) of the New Act also apply to a crime causing the death of a person and punishable with imprisonment without work or a greater punishment that was committed before that Act came into effect and for which the statute of limitations for prosecution has not been completed at the time this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-1: 次項 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-2 - suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-1: 第二百五十条 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百五十条 (Article 250), art-250 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-250 - suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-2: 新法第二百五十条第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第二百五十条第一項 (Article 250, paragraph (1)), art-250/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-250/par-1 - suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-2: 刑法等の一部を改正する法律（平成十六年法律第百五十六号）附則第三条第二項 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4161-156/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4161-156/art-3/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 附則第三条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4221-26/art-3/par-1 --- ## 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-20261106T054114-020, translated 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-022, 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