# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第四十九条 (Article 49) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-49. 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: 第四十九条 (Article 49)（取扱いの分離） — address `art-49` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-49 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-49 - 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. --- ### 第四十九条（取扱いの分離） — (Separate Treatment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-49 **第一項** 少年の被疑者又は被告人は、他の被疑者又は被告人と分離して、なるべく、その接触を避けなければならない。 art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-49/par-1 A juvenile suspect or defendant must be separated from other suspects or defendants to avoid contact with them as much as possible. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 少年に対する被告事件は、他の被告事件と関連する場合にも、審理に妨げない限り、その手続を分離しなければならない。 art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-49/par-2 The proceedings against the juvenile defendant must be separated, even if related to other defendant cases, as long as the proceedings are not obstructed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 刑事施設、留置施設及び海上保安留置施設においては、少年（刑事収容施設及び被収容者等の処遇に関する法律（平成十七年法律第五十号）第二条第四号の受刑者（同条第七号の未決拘禁者としての地位を有するものを除く。）を除く。）を二十歳以上の者と分離して収容しなければならない。 art-49/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-49/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-49/par-3 At a penal institution, detention facility or coast guard detention facility, a juvenile, (other than a sentenced person as prescribed in Article 2, item (iv) of the Act on Penal Detention Facilities and the Treatment of Inmates and Detainees (Act No. 50 of 2005) (excluding any person with the status of detainee awaiting a judicial decision as prescribed in item (vii) of that Article)), must be detained separately from persons of 20 years of age or older. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-49/par-3: 刑事収容施設及び被収容者等の処遇に関する法律（平成十七年法律第五十号）第二条第四号 → e-Gov law 417AC0000000050, 第二条第一項第四号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-2/par-1/item-4 — not held in this collection - art-49/par-3: 同条第七号 → e-Gov law 417AC0000000050, 第二条第一項第七号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-2/par-1/item-7 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第六十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-67/par-2 - 少年法 第六十七条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-67/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-67/par-3 --- ## 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