Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Transitional Measures Concerning the Designation of the Mayor of a Municipality Handling Processes for Family Registers by Electronic Data Processing Systems
第三条（電子情報処理組織によって戸籍事務を取り扱う市町村長の指定に係る経過措置）
A mayor of a municipality (including a special ward mayor, and, in a designated city referred to in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act, meaning a ward mayor or an administratively consolidated ward mayor) who, at the time this Act comes into effect, has actually received the designation pursuant to the provisions of Article 118, paragraph (1) of the Family Register Act prior to the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as "the former Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 4 of the former Act) is deemed to have received the designation pursuant to the provisions of Article 118, paragraph (1) of the new Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 4 of the new Act) on the effective date.
この法律の施行の際現にこの法律による改正前の戸籍法（以下「旧法」という。）第百十八条第一項（旧法第四条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による指定を受けている市町村長（特別区の区長を含むものとし、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあっては、区長又は総合区長とする。）は、施行日に新法第百十八条第一項（新法第四条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による指定を受けたものとみなす。