# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（家庭裁判所調査官の報告） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（家庭裁判所調査官の報告） — (Family Court Investigating Officer's Report) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-7 **第一項** 家庭裁判所調査官は、家庭裁判所の審判に付すべき少年を発見したときは、これを裁判官に報告しなければならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-7/par-1 If any juvenile subject to trial and decision of the family court is found, then a family court investigating officer must report this to a judge. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所調査官は、前項の報告に先だち、少年及び保護者について、事情を調査することができる。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-7/par-2 A family court investigating officer may investigate the circumstances surrounding the juvenile and the parent or guardian before the reporting stated in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/par-2: 前項 → 少年法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-7/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 少年法 第七条第二項（家庭裁判所調査官の報告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-7/par-2 - 少年法 第八条第一項（事件の調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-8/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