# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56. 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（拘禁刑の執行） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（拘禁刑の執行） — Execution of Imprisonment caption: machine translation, not official art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56 **第一項** 拘禁刑の言渡しを受けた少年（第三項の規定により少年院において刑の執行を受ける者を除く。）に対しては、特に設けた刑事施設又は刑事施設若しくは留置施設内の特に分界を設けた場所において、その刑を執行する。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56/par-1 Regarding a juvenile sentenced to imprisonment (excluding a person serving their sentence at a juvenile training school pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3)), the sentence is executed in a specially established penal institution or a specially partitioned area in a penal institution or detention facility. machine translation, not official **第二項** 本人が二十六歳に達するまでは、前項の規定による執行を継続することができる。 art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56/par-2 The execution pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be continued until the juvenile in question reaches 26 years of age. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 拘禁刑の言渡しを受けた十六歳に満たない少年に対しては、刑法第十二条第二項の規定にかかわらず、十六歳に達するまでの間、少年院において、その刑を執行することができる。この場合において、その少年には、矯正教育を授ける。 art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56/par-3 Notwithstanding the provisions in Article 12, paragraph (2) of the Penal Code, a juvenile under 16 years of age sentenced to imprisonment may serve their sentence at a juvenile training school until they reach 16 years of age. In this case, correctional education is given to the juvenile. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1: 第三項 → 少年法 第五十六条第三項 (Article 56, paragraph (3)), art-56/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56/par-3 - art-56/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56/par-1 - art-56/par-3: 刑法第十二条第二項 → 刑法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/penal-code/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/140AC0000000045/art-12/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十七条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-37-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-37-2/par-1/item-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第二条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5079-62/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-5079-62/art-2/par-1 - 少年法 第五十六条第一項（拘禁刑の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56/par-1 - 少年法 第五十六条第二項（拘禁刑の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-56/par-2 - 少年法 第六十七条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-67/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-67/par-4 --- ## 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