# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第六十二条 (Article 62) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62. 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: 第六十二条 (Article 62)（検察官への送致についての特例） — address `art-62` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62 - 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. --- ### 第六十二条（検察官への送致についての特例） — (Special Provisions on Referral to a Public Prosecutor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、特定少年（十八歳以上の少年をいう。以下同じ。）に係る事件については、第二十条の規定にかかわらず、調査の結果、その罪質及び情状に照らして刑事処分を相当と認めるときは、決定をもつて、これを管轄地方裁判所に対応する検察庁の検察官に送致しなければならない。 art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, the family court, by a ruling, must refer a case of a specified juvenile (meaning a juvenile of 18 years of age or older; the same applies below) to a public prosecutor at the public prosecutor's office, which is the counterpart of the district court that has jurisdiction over the case, if a criminal disposition is found appropriate as a result of the investigation, considering the nature and circumstances of the crime. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、家庭裁判所は、特定少年に係る次に掲げる事件については、同項の決定をしなければならない。ただし、調査の結果、犯行の動機、態様及び結果、犯行後の情況、特定少年の性格、年齢、行状及び環境その他の事情を考慮し、刑事処分以外の措置を相当と認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the family court must give the ruling referred to in that paragraph for a case of a specified juvenile stated in the following; provided, however, this does not apply if the court finds any measures other than criminal disposition as more appropriate, as a result of the investigation, which considers the motive, manner and results of the crime, situation after the crime, the specified juvenile's personality traits, age, conduct, environment and other circumstances: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the family court must give the ruling referred to in that paragraph for a case of a specified juvenile stated in the following; provided, however, this does not apply if the court finds any measures other than criminal disposition as more appropriate, as a result of the investigation, which considers motive for the , manner and results of the crime, situation after the crime, the specified juvenile's personality traits, age, conduct, environment and other circumstances:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4827/tb **一** 故意の犯罪行為により被害者を死亡させた罪の事件であつて、その罪を犯すとき十六歳以上の少年に係るもの art-62/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-2/item-1 a case involving a crime causing the death of a victim through an intentional criminal act, in which the specified juvenile was 16 years of age or older when they committed the crime; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 死刑又は無期若しくは短期一年以上の拘禁刑に当たる罪の事件であつて、その罪を犯すとき特定少年に係るもの（前号に該当するものを除く。） art-62/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-2/item-2 a case involving a crime punishable by the death penalty, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment with a minimum term of one year or more, in which the specified juvenile was a specified juvenile at the time that crime was committed (excluding a case that falls under the preceding item). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-62/par-1: 第二十条 → 少年法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-20 - art-62/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第六十二条第一項 (Article 62, paragraph (1)), art-62/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-1 - art-62/par-2/item-2: 前号 → 少年法 第六十二条第二項第一号 (Article 62, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-62/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-2/item-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第六十二条第二項（検察官への送致についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-2 - 少年法 第六十二条第二項第二号（検察官への送致についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-62/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-62/par-2/item-2 - 少年法 第六十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-63/par-1 - 少年法 第六十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-63/par-2 - 少年法 第六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-67/par-1 - 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 附則第二条第一項（検察官への送致に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/suppl-5031-47/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-5031-47/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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 62, 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch juvenile-act-20261102T172711-002, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02