I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Law for Enforcement of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-fifth year of Showa (December 15, 1950)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Law for Enforcement of the Code of Criminal Procedure
The Law for Enforcement of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Law No.249 of 1948) shall be partially amended as follows:
Next to Article 3, there shall be added the following Article:
Article 3-(2). As regards those jokoku appeals, among the cases mentioned in Article 2, for which the jokoku appeal court is the Supreme Court (except for the case where the Supreme Court is the jokoku appeal court by virture of Article 17 of the Temporary Measures Law), the provisions of Articles 368 to 371 inclusive (Compensation for the Expenses Incurred by Appeals), Article 405 (Grounds for Jokoku Appeal), Article 406 (Reception of Cases as the Court of Jokoku Appeal), Article 408 (Trial by Documents), Article 409 (Non-necessity for Summoning the Accused), Articles 410 and 411 (Quashing Judgment), Articles 415 to 417 inclusive (Amending Judgment), Article 418 (Judgment Becoming finally Binding), and Article 373 (Period for Making Appeals) and Article 376 (Written Statement of Grounds for Jokoku Appeal) cited as applicable mutatis mutandis under Article 414, of the New Code shall apply notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2.
Supplementary Provisions:
1. This Law shall come into force as from the day when the period of twenty (20) days shall have elapsed counting from the day of its promulgation.
2. As regards the cases which are either pending in the Supreme Court or for which the period for making jokoku appeal to the Supreme Court has not expired, at the time of enforcement of this Law, the provision of Article 3-(2) shall not apply so far as jokoku appeals in these cases are concerned.