# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第三十二条の五 (Article 32-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-32-5. 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: 第三十二条の五 (Article 32-5)（抗告審における国選付添人） — address `art-32-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-32-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-32-5 - 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. --- ### 第三十二条の五（抗告審における国選付添人） — (Court-Appointed Attendants for Second Instance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-32-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-32-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-32-5 **第一項** 前条第三項の決定があつた場合において、少年に弁護士である付添人がないときは、抗告裁判所は、弁護士である付添人を付さなければならない。 art-32-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-32-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-32-5/par-1 When the ruling prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article is given, the court in charge of the appeal must appoint an attendant who is an attorney-at-law, if the juvenile does not have an attendant who is an attorney-at-law. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the ruling prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article is given, the court in charge of the appeal must appoint an attendant who is an attorney-at-law, if the juvenile does not have an attendant." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb **第二項** 抗告裁判所は、第二十二条の三第二項に規定する事件（家庭裁判所において第十七条第一項第二号の措置がとられたものに限る。）について、少年に弁護士である付添人がなく、かつ、事案の内容、保護者の有無その他の事情を考慮し、抗告審の審理に弁護士である付添人が関与する必要があると認めるときは、弁護士である付添人を付することができる。 art-32-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-32-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-32-5/par-2 For the case prescribed in Article 22-3, paragraph (2) (limited to the case for which the family court conducted the measures prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1), item (ii)), the court in charge of the appeal may appoint an attendant who is an attorney-at-law, if the juvenile does not have an attendant who is an attorney-at-law, and if the court finds that an attendant who is an attorney-at-law, needs to attend the proceedings of second instance, taking into consideration the nature of the case, presence or absence of the parent or guardian and other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "For the case prescribed in Article 22-3, paragraph (2) (limited to the case for which the family court conducted the measures prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1), item (ii)), the court in charge of the appeal may appoint an attendant who is an attorney-at-law, if the juvenile does not have an attendant, and if the court finds that an attendant who is an attorney-at-law, needs to attend the proceedings of second instance, taking into consideration the nature of the case, presence or absence of the parent or guardian and other circumstances." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb --- ## Cites - art-32-5/par-1: 前条第三項 → 少年法 第三十二条の四第三項 (Article 32-4, paragraph (3)), art-32-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-32-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-32-4/par-3 - art-32-5/par-2: 第二十二条の三第二項 → 少年法 第二十二条の三第二項 (Article 22-3, paragraph (2)), art-22-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-22-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-22-3/par-2 - art-32-5/par-2: 第十七条第一項第二号 → 少年法 第十七条第一項第二号 (Article 17, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-17/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-17/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-17/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第三十二条の六第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-32-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-32-6/par-1 - 少年法 第三十五条第二項（再抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-35/par-2 --- ## 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 32-5, paragraph (1) — 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 (少年法), Article 32-5, 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