# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-19. 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: 少年法 (Juveniles Act), 昭和二十三年法律第百六十八号 - English title "Juveniles Act": 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（審判を開始しない旨の決定） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-19 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. --- ### 第十九条（審判を開始しない旨の決定） — (Ruling Not to Commence a Trial) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-19 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、調査の結果、審判に付することができず、又は審判に付するのが相当でないと認めるときは、審判を開始しない旨の決定をしなければならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-19/par-1 The family court must make a ruling not to commence a trial if it finds, as a result of the investigation, that it is impossible or inappropriate to subject the case to trial and decision. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、調査の結果、本人が二十歳以上であることが判明したときは、前項の規定にかかわらず、決定をもつて、事件を管轄地方裁判所に対応する検察庁の検察官に送致しなければならない。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-19/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if it is found, as a result of the investigation, that the person in question is 20 years of age or older, the family court, by a ruling, must refer the case to a public prosecutor at the public prosecutor's office that is the counterpart of the district court with jurisdiction over the case. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if it is found, as a result of the investigation, that the person in question is 20 years of age or older, the family court, by a ruling, must refer the case to a public prosecutor at the public prosecutor's office that is the corresponding district court with jurisdiction over the case." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb --- ## Cites - art-19/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-19/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第十九条第二項（審判を開始しない旨の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-19/par-2 - 少年法 第二十三条第三項（審判開始後保護処分に付しない場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-23/par-3 - 少年法 第二十四条の二第一項（没取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-24-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24-2/par-1 - 少年法 第二十四条の二第二項（没取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-24-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-24-2/par-2 - 少年法 第二十六条の二第一項（少年鑑別所収容の一時継続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-26-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-26-2/par-1 - 少年法 第二十七条の二第四項（保護処分の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-27-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-27-2/par-4 - 少年法 第四十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-45-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-45-2/par-1 - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第十三条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/art-13/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-13/par-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Juveniles Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 少年法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000168/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Juveniles Act (少年法), Article 19, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Juveniles Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02