If a notification of an acknowledgment of parentage, adoption, dissolution of an adoptive relationship, marriage, or divorce (referred to below as a "notification of adoption or other prescribed actions" in this Article) that will become effective upon notification is submitted by a person who has appeared at a city office or town or village office, the mayor of a municipality is to require the person who has appeared to present their driver's license or any other documentation showing their name and other particulars specified by Ministry of Justice Order that are necessary for identifying them, or may require the relevant person to explain these particulars, in order to confirm whether or not the person who has appeared is one of the parties to the event under notification (for an acknowledgment of parentage, the person acknowledging parentage; for an adoption as prescribed in Article 797, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code, the person who will become the adoptive parent and the legal representative of the person who will be adopted; and for the dissolution of an adoptive relationship as prescribed in Article 811, paragraph (2) of the relevant Code, an adoptive parent and the person who is to become the legal representative of the adopted child; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (3)), as provided for by Ministry of Justice Order.
市町村長は、届出によつて効力を生ずべき認知、縁組、離縁、婚姻又は離婚の届出（以下この条において「縁組等の届出」という。）が市役所又は町村役場に出頭した者によつてされる場合には、当該出頭した者に対し、法務省令で定めるところにより、当該出頭した者が届出事件の本人（認知にあつては認知する者、民法第七百九十七条第一項に規定する縁組にあつては養親となる者及び養子となる者の法定代理人、同法第八百十一条第二項に規定する離縁にあつては養親及び養子の法定代理人となるべき者とする。次項及び第三項において同じ。）であるかどうかの確認をするため、当該出頭した者を特定するために必要な氏名その他の法務省令で定める事項を示す運転免許証その他の資料の提供又はこれらの事項についての説明を求めるものとする。
If a notification of adoption or other prescribed action has been submitted, and the mayor of a municipality is unable to confirm, by taking the measures under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that one of the parties to the event under notification has appeared at the city office or town or village office and submitted the notification, the mayor must notify the relevant party without delay after accepting the notification and by a method specified by Ministry of Justice Order that the mayor has accepted the notification of the adoption or other prescribed action.
Any person may make a request to the mayor of a municipality in the locality of their registered domicile, in advance and by a method specified by Ministry of Justice Order, that even if a notification of adoption or other prescribed action has been submitted with regard to an event under notification to which they are a party, that the mayor of a municipality not accept the relevant notification if it is not possible to confirm through the measures under paragraph (1) that they themselves have appeared at the city office or town or village office to submit the notification.
If a notification of adoption or other prescribed action related to a request under the preceding paragraph has been submitted, and the mayor of a municipality is unable to confirm, by taking the measures under paragraph (1), that the person making the request has appeared at the city office or town or village office to submit the notification, the mayor may not accept the notification.
If the mayor of a municipality is not permitted to accept a notification of adoption or other prescribed actions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the mayor, without delay and by a method specified by Ministry of Justice Order, must notify the person who made a request under paragraph (3) that the notification of the adoption or other prescribed actions has been submitted.