減刑令
法令番号: 勅令第512号
公布年月日: 昭和21年11月3日
法令の形式: 勅令

審議経過

朕は、減刑令を裁可し、ここにこれを公布せしめる。
I hereby give My Sanction to Commutation Ordinance and cause the same to be promulgated.
御名御璽
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
昭和二十一年十一月三日
This third day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 3, 1946)
內閣總理大臣兼外務大臣　吉田茂
Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs　YOSHIDA Shigeru
國務大臣　男爵　幣原喜重郞
Minister of State　Baron　SHIDEHARA Kijuro
司法大臣　木村篤太郞
Minister of Justice　KIMURA Tokutaro
內務大臣　大村淸一
Minister for Home Affairs　OMURA Seiichi
文部大臣　田中耕太郞
Minister of Education　TANAKA Kotaro
農林大臣　和田博雄
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry　WADA Hiroo
國務大臣　齋藤隆夫
Minister of State　SAITO Takao
遞信大臣　一松定吉
Minister of Communications　HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi
商工大臣　星島二郞
Minister of Commerce and Industry　HOSHIJIMA Niro
厚生大臣　河合良成
Minister of Welfare　KAWAI Yoshinari
國務大臣　植原悅二郞
Minister of State　UEHARA Etsujiro
運輸大臣　平塚常次郞
Minister of Transportation　HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro
大藏大臣　石橋湛山
Minister of Finance　ISHIBASHI Tanzan
國務大臣　金森德次郞
Minister of State　ZEN Keinosuke
國務大臣　膳桂之助
Minister of State　KANAMORI Tokujiro
勅令第五百十二號
Imperial Ordinance No. 512
減刑令
Commutation Ordinance
第一條　昭和二十一年十一月三日前に禁錮以上の刑に處せられた者でその刑の執行前、執行猶豫中、執行中、執行停止中又は假出獄中のものは、この勅令によりその刑を減輕する。
Article 1.　With respect to persons who were sentenced to imprisonment or graver penalty before November 3, 1946 and now are prior to execution of punishment, suspended from execution, under execution, suspended temporarily from execution or released on a ticket-of-leave, the penalty shall be commuted by the present Ordinance,
但し、その執行を遁れる者は、この限りでない。
but this shall not apply to those who have taken flight to be exempted from execution of punishment.
第二條　死刑は、これを無期懲役とする。
Article 2.　Capital punishment shall be mitigated to penal servitude for life.
第三條　無期懲役は、これを二十年の有期懲役とし、無期禁錮は、これを二十年の有期禁錮とする。但し、昭和二十一年十一月三日において七十歲以上の者及び犯時十六歲未滿の者については、これを十五年の懲役又は禁錮とする。
Article 3.　Penal servitude for life shall be lowered to penal servitude for a period of twenty years, and imprisonment for life to imprisonment for a period of twenty years; but in respect to persons who are not less than seventy years of age on November 3, 1946 or less than sixteen years at the time of committing offences, each penalty shall be lowered to penal servitude or imprisonment for a period of fifteen years.
第四條　有期の懲役又は禁錮については、左の例により刑期を變更する。
Article 4.　Penal servitude or imprisonment for a term shall be altered in term according to the following rules;
一　刑の執行を始めない者については、刑期の四分の一を減ずる。
1.　With respect to persons who are prior to execution of punishment, one-fourth of the term of penalty shall be reduced;
二　刑の執行を始めた者については、殘刑期の二分の一を減ずる。
2.　With respect to persons who are under execution, one-half of the remaining term shall be reduced,
但し、刑の執行が刑期の二分の一に至らない者については、前號の例による。
but the rule of the preceding item shall govern those who have been executed for less than one-half of the term;
三　昭和二十一年十一月三日において七十歲以上の者及び犯時十六歲未滿の者については、前二號の例によらないで刑期の三分の一を減ずる。
3.　With respect to persons who are not less than seventy years of age on November 1, 1946 or less than sixteen years at the time of committing offences, one-third of the term shall be reduced, without following the rules of the preceding two items.
短期と長期を定めて言渡した刑については、短期及び長期について前項の例による。但し、犯時十六歲以上の者で短期を經過したものについては、長期について同項第二號の例による。
The rules of the preceding paragraph shall govern the minimum and maximum term in cases where sentences are passed fixing the minimum and maximum term of penalties; but the provisions of item 2 of the preceding paragraph shall apply to the maximum term of penalties which were imposed upon those persons of not less than sixteen years of age at the time of committing offences who had passed the minimum term thereof.
前二項の計算をするに當り、年、月又は日の端數を生ずるときは、一年はこれを十二月、一月はこれを三十日とし、日の端數はこれを切り捨てる。
In cases fractions of year, month or day are produced on the occasion of calculation prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, one year shall be reckoned as Twelve months and one month as thirty days; and fractions of days shall be omitted.
第五條　左に揭げる罪については、その刑を減輕しない。
Article 5.　Penalties imposed upon the following offences shall not be reduced;
一　刑法第七十三條及び第七十五條の罪
1.　Offences prescribed in Articles 73 and 75 of the Criminal Code;
二　刑法第百八條の罪及びその未遂罪
2.　Offences prescribed in Article 108 of the Criminal Code, and attempted but not consummated committal thereof;
三　刑法第百八十八條の罪及びその未遂罪
3.　Offences prescribed in Article 148 of the Criminal Code, and attempted but not consummated committal thereof;
四　刑法第百八十一條の罪
4.　Offences prescribed in Article 181 of the Criminal Code;
五　刑法第二百條の罪及びその未遂罪
5.　Offences prescribed in Article 200 of the Criminal Code, and attempted but not consummated committal the thereof;
六　自己又は配偶者の直系尊屬に對して犯した刑法第二百四條の罪
6.　Offences committed against lineal ascendants of himself or herself or his or her spouse, prescribed in Article 204 of the Criminal Code;
七　刑法第二百五條第二項の罪
7.　Offences prescribed in Article 205, paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code;
八　刑法第二百十八條第二項の罪及びその罪を犯し因つて人を死傷に致した罪
8.　Offences prescribed in Article 218, paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code, and the offences of causing death or wounds by reason of committing them;
九　刑法第二百二十條第二項の罪及びその罪を犯し因つて人を死傷に致した罪
9.　Offences prescribed in Article 220, paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code, and the offences of causing death or wounds by reason of committing them;
十　刑法第二百三十六條及び第二百三十八條乃至第二百四十一條の罪竝びにその未遂罪
10.　Offences prescribed in Articles 236, 238 to 241 of the Criminal Code, and attempted but not consummated committal thereof;
十一　前各號に揭げる罪と性質を同じくする戰時刑事特別法の罪
11.　Offences against the Special Criminal Law in Wartime which are equal in nature to the offences prescribed in every preceding item;
十二　陸軍刑法第八十六條第二項、第八十八條及び第八十八條ノ二第二項の罪竝びにその未遂罪
12.　Offences prescribed in Article 86 paragraph 2, Article 88 and Article 88-2 paragraph 2 of the Military Criminal Code, and attempted but not consummated committal thereof;
十三　海軍刑法第八十六條第二項、第八十八條及び第八十八條ノ二第二項の罪竝びにその未遂罪
13.　Offences prescribed in Article 86 paragraph 2, Article 88 and Article 88-2 paragraph 2 of the Naval Criminal Code, and attempted but not consummated committal thereof;
十四　前各號に揭げる罪と性質を同じくする舊法の罪
14.　Offences prescribed in the old Laws; which are equal in nature to the offence mentioned in every preceding item;
十五　昭和二十一年勅令第九十號第二條第一項及び第二項の罪竝びにその未遂罪
15.　Offences prescribed in Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Imperial Ordinance No. 90, 1946, and attempted but not consummated committal thereof;
十六　聯合國占領軍の占領目的に反する行爲（昭和二十一年勅令第三百十一號第一條第二號乃至第八號又は第二條第三項に揭げる行爲）から成る罪
16.　The offences which are composed of acts against the Allied occupation, particularly those mentioned in the Imperial Ordinance No. 311, 1946, Article 1, items 2 to 8 inclusive or Article 2, paragraph 3;
十七　朝鮮、臺灣、關東州又は南洋群島に行はれた法令の罪で前各號に揭げる罪と性質を同じくするもの
17.　Offences prescribed in Laws and Ordinances of Korea, Formosa, the Kwantung province or the South Sea Islands, which are equal in nature to the offences mentioned in every preceding item.
第六條　併合罪につき併合して一個の刑の言渡があつた場合において、その併合罪の中に前條に揭げる罪があるときは、減刑をしない。
Article 6.　Commutation shall not be granted in cases where concurrent offences about which only one sentence was passed concurrently should contain offences mentioned in the preceding Article.
前條に揭げない罪名に觸れる行爲が、同時に同條に揭げる罪名に觸れるとき、又は同條に揭げる罪の手段若しくは結果であるときも前項と同樣である。
The same shall apply in cases where acts constituting offences other than those mentioned in the preceding Article should at the same time constitute offences prescribed in the said Article, or be means or results of offences mentioned in the said Article.
第七條　前に禁錮以上の刑に處せられた者で、昭和二十一年十一月三日前十五年以內に特赦、減刑又は勅令によらない復權の恩赦を得、その後七年以內に禁錮以上の刑に處せられたものについては、その刑を減輕しない。
Article 7.　Commutation shall not be granted to those persons who, while sentenced to imprisonment or graver penalties, were granted special amnesty, commutation or rehabilitation not in accordance with the Imperial Ordinance within fifteen years before November 3, 1946, and were sentenced again to imprisonment or graver penalties within seven years thereafter.
附　則
Supplementary Provision:
この勅令は、公布の日から、これを施行する。
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.