# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-4281-54/art-8` - 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-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-4281-54/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-8 **第一項** 検察官又は司法警察員は、第四号施行日前においても、第二条による改正前の法第三十七条の二第一項に規定する事件以外の事件について逮捕され、又は勾留状が発せられている被疑者に対し、第四号施行日を告げ、第四号施行日以後、勾留を請求され、又は勾留状が発せられている被疑者が貧困その他の事由により自ら弁護人を選任することができないときは裁判官に対して弁護人の選任を請求することができる旨並びに裁判官に対して弁護人の選任を請求するには資力申告書を提出しなければならない旨及びその資力が基準額以上であるときは、あらかじめ、弁護士会に弁護人の選任の申出をしていなければならない旨を教示することができる。 suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-1 A public prosecutor or judicial police officer may, even before the item (iv) Effective Date, notify a suspect who is arrested, or for whom a detention warrant has been issued, in a case other than a case prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) of the Act Before Amendment by Article 2 of the item (iv) Effective Date, and inform the suspect that, on or after the item (iv) Effective Date, if a suspect for whom a request for detention is made or a detention warrant has been issued is unable to personally appoint a defense counsel due to indigence or any other grounds, the suspect may request a judge to appoint a defense counsel; that when requesting the judge to appoint the defense counsel, the suspect must submit a report on personal financial resources; and that when the suspect's Financial Resources are equal to or more than the base amount, the suspect must have first requested a bar association to appoint the defense counsel. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定による教示をされた被疑者については、当該事件について重ねて前条の規定による教示をすることを要しない。 suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-2 A suspect who has been informed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph need not be informed again with regard to that case pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-1 - suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-2: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4281-54/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-7 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite 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 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第七条第三項（第二条の規定による刑事訴訟法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-7/par-3 - 刑事訴訟法 附則第八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-4281-54/art-8/par-2 --- ## 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-20261106T054114-023, 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