# 少年法 / Juveniles Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/suppl-3231-168/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-3231-168/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/suppl-3231-168/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3231-168/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-3231-168/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/suppl-3231-168/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3231-168/art-5 **第一項** 第六十条の規定は、この法律施行前、少年のとき犯した罪により死刑又は無期の刑法等の一部を改正する法律（令和四年法律第六十七号）第二条の規定による改正前の刑法（以下この条において「旧刑法」という。）第十二条に規定する懲役若しくは旧刑法第十三条に規定する禁錮に処せられ、減刑その他の事由で刑期を満了し、又は刑の執行の免除を受けた者に対しても、これを適用する。 suppl-3231-168/art-5/par-1 · 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 The provisions of Article 60 also apply to a person who, before this Act came into effect, was sentenced, for a crime committed as a juvenile, to death, to imprisonment with work for life prescribed in Article 12 of the Penal Code prior to amendment by Article 2 of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Former Penal Code"), or to imprisonment without work for life prescribed in Article 13 of the Former Penal Code, and who has served the term of the sentence through commutation of sentence or on other grounds, or who has been exempted from execution of the sentence. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-168/art-5/par-1: 第六十条 → 少年法 第六十条 (Article 60), art-60 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/art-60 - suppl-3231-168/art-5/par-1: 刑法等の一部を改正する法律（令和四年法律第六十七号）第二条 → e-Gov law 504AC0000000067, 第二条 (Article 2), art-2 — not held in this collection - suppl-3231-168/art-5/par-1: この条 → 少年法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-3231-168/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/juvenile-act/suppl-3231-168/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000168/suppl-3231-168/art-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch juvenile-act-20261102T172711-003, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 少年法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02