Book 1: Preliminary Provisions
- Section 1: Defined terms and their meaning
- Section 2: Definitions used in the Code
- Section 3: Acting on behalf of an injured person
- Section 4: Married woman's right to prosecute
- Section 5: Persons who may act for the injured
- Section 6: Court-appointed representative for the case
- Section 7: Juristic person as accused or defendant
- Section 7/1: Rights of an arrested person in custody
- Section 8: Rights of the defendant after charge
- Section 9: Requirements for an official memorandum
- Section 10: Requirements for a court record
- Section 11: Reading and signing statements
- Section 12: Form of documents and corrections
- Section 12 bis: Psychologists and social workers
- Section 13: Language of proceedings and interpreters
- Section 13 bis: Repealed
- Section 14: Insane accused unable to defend
- Section 15: Civil Procedure applied suppletively
- Section 16: Powers fixed by organizing laws
- Section 17: Power to investigate crimes
- Section 18: Territorial jurisdiction to inquire
- Section 19: Offenses spanning several localities
- Section 20: Inquiry for offenses committed abroad
- Section 21: Deciding the responsible inquirer
- Section 21/1: Police Commissioner decides responsibility
- Section 22: Court with venue over the case
- Section 23: Transfer between competent courts
- Section 24: Jurisdiction over connected offenses
- Section 25: Joint trial or return of connected case
- Section 26: Transfer ordered by Supreme Court President
- Section 27: Challenging a criminal judge
- Section 28: Who may prosecute a criminal case
- Section 29: Continuing a case after the plaintiff dies
- Section 30: Injured person joining the prosecutor
- Section 31: Prosecutor joining the injured person
- Section 32: Prosecutor controlling a co-plaintiff
- Section 33: Consolidating the same case
- Section 34: Non-prosecution order and private suit
- Section 35: Withdrawing a criminal charge
- Section 36: Refiling a withdrawn case
- Section 37: When a criminal case terminates
- Section 38: Official's power to compound
- Section 39: Extinguishment of the right to prosecute
- Section 40: Connected civil case: which court
- Section 41: Severing the civil case
- Section 42: Timing of civil and criminal judgments
- Section 43: Prosecutor's claim for stolen property or value
- Section 44: How and when restitution is claimed
- Section 44/1: Victim's motion for compensation in criminal case
- Section 44/2: Handling the victim's compensation motion
- Section 45: Civil action not barred by criminal charge
- Section 46: Civil judgment bound by criminal facts
- Section 47: Civil liability judged by civil law
- Section 48: Returning property and ownership disputes
- Section 49: Returning exhibits without a civil claim
- Section 50: Victim treated as judgment creditor
- Section 51: Prescription for connected civil claims
- Section 52: Summons to appear
- Section 53: Required contents of a summons
- Section 54: Fixing the appearance date and time
- Section 55: Substitute service of a summons
- Section 55/1: Serving prosecution witness summonses
- Section 56: Cross-locality service of summons
- Section 57: Warrant required for arrest, detention, search
- Section 58: Court's power to issue warrants
- Section 59: Issuing and revoking warrants
- Section 59/1: Evidential threshold for warrants
- Section 60: Required contents of a warrant
- Section 61: Officials who execute warrants
- Section 62: Informing and showing the warrant
- Section 63: Recording and returning the warrant
- Section 64: Delivering the person or thing found
- Section 65: Re-arrest of an escapee
- Section 66: Grounds for an arrest warrant
- Section 67: Arrest warrant for an unnamed person
- Section 68: Duration and lapse of an arrest warrant
- Section 69: Grounds for issuing a search warrant
- Section 70: Search warrant to arrest a person
- Section 71: Court detention of accused or defendant
- Section 72: When a release warrant is issued
- Section 73: Release when custody meets the sentence
- Section 74: Issuing an imprisonment warrant
- Section 75: Release after imprisonment ends
- Section 76: Warrants executed without delay
- Section 77: Nationwide validity and execution of an arrest warrant
- Section 78: Warrantless arrest by officers
- Section 79: Arrest by a private person
- Section 80: Definition of a flagrant offense
- Section 81: No arrest in a private place
- Section 81/1: No arrest in royal residences
- Section 82: Requesting help to execute a warrant
- Section 83: Duties when making an arrest
- Section 84: Handover of the arrested person
- Section 84/1: Custody or release after handover
- Section 85: Search of the person and seizure of evidence
- Section 85/1: Interim recovery of seized property
- Section 86: No custody beyond what is necessary
- Section 87: Limits on pre-charge detention and remand
- Section 87/1: Remand examination by video conference
- Section 88: Detention or release after indictment
- Section 89: Territorial effect of detention warrants
- Section 89/1: Detention in a place other than prison
- Section 89/2: Alternative methods of serving imprisonment
- Section 90: Remedy against unlawful custody
- Section 91: Section 81/1 applied to searches
- Section 92: Search of private place: warrant rule
- Section 93: Search of a person in public
- Section 94: Entry, showing warrant, use of force
- Section 95: Owner may accompany property search
- Section 96: Daytime search rule and exceptions
- Section 97: Who may lead a warrant search
- Section 98: Scope of search and seizure
- Section 99: Avoiding damage during a search
- Section 100: Controlling and searching persons present
- Section 101: Sealing or marking seized property
- Section 102: Manner of search and witnesses
- Section 103: Recording the search and inventory
- Section 104: Forwarding search record and property
- Section 105: Seizing mail and telegrams
- Section 106: Where to apply for provisional release
- Section 107: Prompt decision on bail
- Section 108: Factors for deciding bail
- Section 108/1: Grounds to refuse bail
- Section 108 bis: Witness objection to bail
- Section 109: Objection in serious cases
- Section 110: Bond and security requirements
- Section 111: Release without security
- Section 112: Bail contract requirements
- Section 113: Bail time limits at inquiry
- Section 113/1: Carrying over bail security
- Section 114: Types of security
- Section 115: Changing bail terms
- Section 116: Withdrawing bail security
- Section 117: Arrest of absconding accused
- Section 118: Return of bail security
- Section 119: Enforcement of forfeited bail bonds
- Section 119 bis: Appeal against denial of bail