Family Register Act

The request in Article 10, paragraph (1) made pursuant to the provisions If a family register or a removed family register is prepared by means of paragraph (1) of a magnetic disk pursuant to the preceding provisions of Article, or 119, the request in Article 10-210, paragraph (2) made pursuant to the provisions of1) or the request in Article 10-2, paragraph (1) of the preceding Article 2) (limited to the relevant requests that are necessary to perform the processes specified by Ministry of Justice Order; the same applies in this Article (excluding paragraph (3))) may be made , in lieu of a family register transcript, extract or certificate or a transcript, extract, or certificate of a removed family register, for a family register electronic certificate (meaning an electronic or magnetic record (meaning a record that is created in an electronic format, a magnetic format, or any other format that cannot be perceived by the human senses, and that is specified by Ministry of Justice Order as being used in computerized information processing; the same applies below) prepared by means of a magnetic disk certifying all or part of the particulars recorded in the family register pursuant to the provisions of Article 119) or also for an electronic certificate of a removed family register (meaning an electronic or magnetic record prepared by means of a magnetic disk certifying all or part of the particulars recorded in the removed family register pursuant to the provisions of Article 119; the same applies below). The same applies when a request set forth in any of the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is made to the person specified in the relevant item (limited to when it is made to a mayor of a designated municipality other than the mayor of a municipality in the locality of the registered domicile).

Concerning the requests in Article 10, paragraph (1) and Article 10-2, paragraph (2) made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), in these provisions, the term "issuance" is deemed to be replaced with "provision by an administrative organ or other relevant organ pursuant to paragraph (3) of Article 120-3, as prescribed in the paragraph", and concerning the request in Article 10, paragraph (1) (limited to a requestmade pursuant to the mayor of a designated municipality other than the mayor of a municipality of the placeprovisions of the registered domicile) made pursuant to the provisionssecond sentence of paragraph (1), the provisions in paragraph (3) of that Article and Article 10-3, paragraph (2) do not apply, and in the provisions of Article 10-3, paragraph (1), the terms "the person taking charge of making the request" and "themselves" are deemed to be replaced with "the person who makes the request".

If a local government agency (excluding an assembly) that has been issued the identification code for provision of the family register electronic certificate or the identification code for the provision of electronic certificate of a removed family register, or the local government to which the relevant agency belongs, seeks the provision of the family register electronic certificate or the electronic certificate of a removed family register prescribed in Article 120-3, paragraph (3), the relevant local government must bear the fee for the use of the electronic data processing system, pursuant to Cabinet Order.