# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-15. 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)（調整規定） — address `suppl-4281-54/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（調整規定） — Adjustment Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4281-54/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-15 **第一項** 第三号施行日が刑法等の一部を改正する法律の施行の日以後となる場合には、前条の規定は、適用しない。 suppl-4281-54/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-15/par-1 If the item (iii) Effective Date falls on or after the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. comes into effect, the provisions of the preceding Article do not apply. machine translation, not official ## 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三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-1/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-023, 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