# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第六十条 (Article 60) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60. 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: 第六十条 (Article 60)（人の資格に関する法令の適用） — address `art-60` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60 - 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. --- ### 第六十条（人の資格に関する法令の適用） — (Application of Laws and Regulations Concerning Personal Qualification) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60 **第一項** 少年のとき犯した罪により刑に処せられてその執行を受け終り、又は執行の免除を受けた者は、人の資格に関する法令の適用については、将来に向つて刑の言渡を受けなかつたものとみなす。 art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60/par-1 With respect to application of laws and regulations regarding personal qualification, a person who had been sentenced for an offense committed as a juvenile and has served their sentence or who has been exempted from execution of the sentence is deemed not to have been sentenced from that point on. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 少年のとき犯した罪について刑に処せられた者で刑の執行猶予の言渡を受けた者は、その猶予期間中、刑の執行を受け終つたものとみなして、前項の規定を適用する。 art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60/par-2 When a person has been sentenced for an offense committed as a juvenile, but the execution of the sentence has been suspended, the person is deemed to have served their sentence during that suspension period, and the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の場合において、刑の執行猶予の言渡を取り消されたときは、人の資格に関する法令の適用については、その取り消されたとき、刑の言渡があつたものとみなす。 art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60/par-3 In the case of the preceding paragraph, if the suspension of execution of the sentence is revoked, the person is deemed to have been sentenced when it is revoked, with respect to the application of laws and regulations regarding personal qualifications. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-60/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60/par-1 - art-60/par-3: 前項 → 少年法 第六十条第二項 (Article 60, paragraph (2)), art-60/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第六十条第二項（人の資格に関する法令の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60/par-2 - 少年法 第六十条第三項（人の資格に関する法令の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60/par-3 - 少年法 第六十七条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-67/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-67/par-6 - 少年法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/suppl-3231-168/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3231-168/art-5/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02