Part I General Provisions
Chapter IV Counsel and Assistants
Article 30
(1) The accused or the suspect may appoint defense counsel at any time.
(2) The legal representative, curator, spouse, lineal relative, sibling of the accused or suspect may independently appoint defense counsel.
Part II First Instance
Chapter I Inquiry and Investigation
Article 203
(2) In the case of the preceding paragraph, if the judicial police officer asks the suspect whether or not the suspect has defense counsel, and if the suspect has defense counsel, said officer is not required to inform the suspect of the fact that the suspect may appoint a defense counsel.
Part II First Instance
Chapter I Inquiry and Investigation
Article 204
(1) When a public prosecutor has arrested a suspect through an arrest warrant or has received a suspect who was arrested upon an arrest warrant (excluding such suspect as is referred in accordance with the preceding Article), prosecutor must immediately inform the suspect of the outline of the suspected crime and the fact that the suspect may appoint defense counsel and then, giving the suspect an opportunity for explanation, said prosecutor must immediately release the suspect when believing that it is not necessary to detain the suspect, or must request a judge to detain the suspect within 48 hours of the suspect being placed under physical restraint when believing that it is necessary to detain the suspect; provided however, that if the public prosecutor has instituted prosecution during the time limitation, said prosecutor does not be required to request detention.
CHAPTER III
RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE PEOPLE
Article 34.
No person shall be arrested or detained without being at once informed of the charges against him or without the immediate privilege of counsel; nor shall he be detained without adequate cause; and upon demand of any person such cause must be immediately shown in open court in his presence and the presence of his counsel.
2. Where there are grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court and that person is about to be questioned either by the Prosecutor, or by national authorities pursuant to a request made under Part 9, that person shall also have the following rights of which he or she shall be informed prior to being questioned:
(c) To have legal assistance of the person's choosing, or, if the person does not have legal assistance, to have legal assistance assigned to him or her, in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment by the person in any such case if the person does not have sufficient means to pay for it; and