# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

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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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（公判調書等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5071-39/art-3`
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### 第三条（公判調書等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Trial Records, Etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5071-39/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-3</sup>

**第一項**
<sup>suppl-5071-39/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-3/par-1</sup>

**第四項**  最高裁判所は、第一項の規定に基づき特定刑事事件を定めるに当たっては、刑事手続における情報通信技術の活用の段階的かつ円滑な推進に資するため、その範囲が逓減するよう適切に定めるものとする。
<sup>suppl-5071-39/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-3/par-4</sup>
When specifying specified criminal cases pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the Supreme Court is to specify them appropriately so that their scope progressively narrows, in order to contribute to the stepwise and smooth promotion of the use of information and communications technology in criminal proceedings.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5071-39/art-3/par-4: 第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-5071-39/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-3/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite 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-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-1
- 刑事訴訟法 附則第三条第四項（公判調書等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/suppl-5071-39/art-3/par-4

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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-20261106T054114-026, 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
