# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-31. 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（費用の徴収） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（費用の徴収） — (Collection of Costs) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-31 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、少年又はこれを扶養する義務のある者から証人、鑑定人、通訳人、翻訳人、参考人、第二十二条の三第三項（第二十二条の五第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により選任された付添人及び補導を委託された者に支給した旅費、日当、宿泊料その他の費用並びに少年鑑別所及び少年院において生じた費用の全部又は一部を徴収することができる。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-31/par-1 The family court may collect from the juvenile, or the person having a duty to support the juvenile, all or part of the travel expenses, daily allowances, accommodation fees and other costs paid to witnesses, expert witnesses, interpreters, translators, person of reference, attendants appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 22-3, paragraph (3) (including if it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22-5, paragraph (4)) and those commissioned to give correctional guidance, and the costs incurred by the juvenile classification home and juvenile training school. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の費用の徴収については、非訟事件手続法（平成二十三年法律第五十一号）第百二十一条第一項、第二項及び第四項並びに刑事訴訟法第五百八条第一項本文及び第二項並びに第五百十四条の規定を準用する。この場合において、非訟事件手続法第百二十一条第一項中「検察官」とあるのは、「家庭裁判所」と読み替えるものとする。 art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-31/par-2 With regard to the collection of the costs prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 121, paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act (Act No. 51 of 2011) and Article 508, paragraph (1), main clause and paragraph (2), and Article 514 of the Code of Criminal Procedure apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, the term "public prosecutor" in Article 121, paragraph (1) of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act is deemed to be replaced with "family court". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 第二十二条の三第三項 → 少年法 第二十二条の三第三項 (Article 22-3, paragraph (3)), art-22-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-22-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-22-3/par-3 - art-31/par-1: 第二十二条の五第四項 → 少年法 第二十二条の五第四項 (Article 22-5, paragraph (4)), art-22-5/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-22-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-22-5/par-4 - art-31/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-31/par-1 - art-31/par-2: 非訟事件手続法（平成二十三年法律第五十一号）第百二十一条第一項 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百二十一条第一項 (Article 121, paragraph (1)), art-121/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-31/par-2: 第二項 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百二十一条第二項 (Article 121, paragraph (2)), art-121/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-31/par-2: 第四項 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百二十一条第四項 (Article 121, paragraph (4)), art-121/par-4 — not held in this collection - art-31/par-2: 刑事訴訟法第五百八条第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第五百八条第一項 (Article 508, paragraph (1)), art-508/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-31/par-2: 第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第五百八条第二項 (Article 508, paragraph (2)), art-508/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-31/par-2: 第五百十四条 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第五百十四条 (Article 514), art-514 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第三十一条第二項（費用の徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-31/par-2 --- ## Sources - 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch juvenile-act-20261102T172711-001, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02