Code of Criminal Procedure Article 236

This English translation was last updated on 2020-01-15, but the Chinese text was amended on 2026-05-13. Later amendments may not be reflected in the translation — please refer to the Chinese text.

Where there is no person competent to file a complaint, or a person competent to file a complaint is incapacitated from exercising his right of complaint, in a case chargeable only upon complain, the competent public prosecutor may, at the request of an interested party or ex officio, designate a person for filing the complaint.The provision of the proviso of section II of Article 233 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Article.Note: Articles 1 through 343 were amended lastly on February 6, 2003.
中文原文 刑事訴訟法第236條
告訴乃論之罪,無得為告訴之人或得為告訴之人不能行使告訴權者,該管檢察官得依利害關係人之聲請或依職權指定代行告訴人。
第二百三十三條第二項但書之規定,本條準用之。

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