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A family register (戸籍) newly created on or after the date the provisions listed in Article 1, item 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 48 of 2023 come into effect — among them Article 7 of that Act, which amends this Act.
The date Act No. 61 of 2011, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 17 of 2019, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 37 of 2021, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 45 of 1984.
This Act as amended by Article 7 of Act No. 48 of 2023.
The kana characters showing how the characters of a person's given name (名) are read, entered in the family register (戸籍).
氏の振り仮名
The kana characters showing how the characters of a person's surname (氏) are read, entered in the family register (戸籍).
A mayor of a city, town or village (市町村長) whom the Minister of Justice has designated under Article 118(1) to handle family register (戸籍) work on the computer system linking the Minister's computers with the mayors' (電子情報処理組織).
第百十八条第一項の規定による指定を受けている市町村長
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 17 of 2019 come into effect — among them the amendment adding Article 121-3 to this Act — a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within three years of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication) on 31 May 2019.
This Act as amended by Act No. 17 of 2019.
一般の読み方
A reading generally accepted as a way of reading the characters used in personal names — the only kind of reading that Article 13(2) of this Act, as amended by Article 7 of Act No. 48 of 2023, allows for the kana (振り仮名) of a name entered in a family register (戸籍).
A transcript (謄本, a copy of the whole) or extract (抄本, a copy of part) of a family register (戸籍), or a certificate of what is entered in it.
A person entered at the head (筆頭) of a family register (戸籍) — the person whose name, with the registered domicile (本籍), identifies the register under Article 9 — at the time the provisions listed in Article 1, item 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 48 of 2023 come into effect.
管轄法務局長等
The director of the Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局) or District Legal Affairs Bureau (地方法務局) with jurisdiction over the place where the relevant city office (市役所), ward office (区役所) or town or village office (町村役場) is located.
Anyone who does not hold Japanese nationality.
管轄法務局長等
The director of the Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局) or District Legal Affairs Bureau (地方法務局) with jurisdiction over the place where the relevant city office (市役所), ward office (区役所) or town or village office (町村役場) is located.
The Act as it stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions deal with.
This Act as it stood before Act No. 17 of 2019 amended it.
The computer system linking the computers the Minister of Justice uses — including their magnetic disks (磁気ディスク) and input and output devices — with the computers used by mayors of cities, towns and villages (市町村長) over telecommunications lines.
法務大臣の使用に係る電子計算機（磁気ディスク（これに準ずる方法により一定の事項を確実に記録することができる物を含む。以下同じ。）及び入出力装置を含む。以下同じ。）と市町村長の使用に係る電子計算機とを電気通信回線で接続した電子情報処理組織
The kana characters (振り仮名) showing how the characters of a person's surname (氏) and given name (名) are read, which Article 13, paragraph (1), item (ii) requires to be entered in the family register (戸籍) for each person in it; they are made up of the surname kana characters (氏の振り仮名) and the given name kana characters (名の振り仮名).
氏に用いられる文字の読み方を示す文字（以下「氏の振り仮名」という。）及び名に用いられる文字の読み方を示す文字（以下「名の振り仮名」という。）
A notification (届出) of the acknowledgment of a child (認知), an adoption (縁組), the dissolution of an adoption (離縁), a marriage (婚姻) or a divorce (離婚), of the kind that takes legal effect through the notification itself.
An electronic record (電磁的記録), in a form a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) specifies, certifying all or part of what is recorded in a family register (戸籍) kept on magnetic disk (磁気ディスク) under Article 119.
第百十九条の規定により磁気ディスクをもつて調製された戸籍に記録された事項の全部又は一部を証明した電磁的記録（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものとして法務省令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）
An electronic record (電磁的記録) certifying all or part of what is recorded in a removed family register (除かれた戸籍) kept on magnetic disk (磁気ディスク) under Article 119.
第百十九条の規定により磁気ディスクをもつて調製された除かれた戸籍に記録された事項の全部又は一部を証明した電磁的記録
A written notification (届書), written application (申請書) or other document that this Act requires to be submitted and that a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) names as needed for making an entry in a family register (戸籍), when a designated mayor (指定市町村長) receives it.
The image data (画像情報) of a written notification, application or other document (届書等) that a designated mayor (指定市町村長) receives, which the mayor creates and sends to the Minister of Justice over the computer system linking their computers (電子情報処理組織).
A transcript (謄本, a copy of the whole) or extract (抄本, a copy of part) of a removed family register (除かれた戸籍) — such as one taken out of the register book once everyone entered in it has been removed (Article 12) — or a certificate of what is entered in it.
A document certifying all or part of what is recorded in a family register (戸籍) kept on magnetic disk (磁気ディスク), which can be requested instead of a transcript, extract or certificate of the register (戸籍謄本等).
A document certifying all or part of what is recorded in a removed family register (除かれた戸籍) kept on magnetic disk (磁気ディスク), which can be requested instead of a transcript, extract or certificate of that register (除籍謄本等).
A code, of a kind a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) sets, that a designated mayor (指定市町村長) issues to a person who has requested a family register electronic certificate (戸籍電子証明書) and that identifies that certificate, so that an administrative body can obtain it by showing the code (Article 120-3(3)).
当該請求に係る戸籍電子証明書を識別することができるように付される符号であつて、法務省令で定めるもの
除籍電子証明書提供用識別符号
A code, of a kind a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) sets, that a designated mayor (指定市町村長) issues to a person who has requested an electronic certificate of a removed family register (除籍電子証明書) and that identifies that certificate, so that an administrative body can obtain it by showing the code (Article 120-3(3)).
当該請求に係る除籍電子証明書を識別することができるように付される符号であつて、法務省令で定めるもの
Any of the means by which an entry is made in a family register (戸籍) under Article 15: a notification (届出), report (報告), application (申請), request (請求) or commission (嘱託), a certified copy (謄本) of a certificate or of a ship's logbook (航海日誌), or a court decision (裁判).
届出、報告、申請、請求若しくは嘱託、証書若しくは航海日誌の謄本又は裁判
A petition, request for examination, objection or other administrative appeal filed under the old appeal system.
Any of the means by which an entry is made in a family register (戸籍) under Article 15: a notification (届出), report (報告), application (申請), request (請求) or commission (嘱託), a certified copy (謄本) of a certificate or of a ship's logbook (航海日誌), or a court decision (裁判).
届出、報告、申請、請求若しくは嘱託、証書若しくは航海日誌の謄本又は裁判
指定都市
A designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 500,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令).
The person making a request for a family register transcript, extract or certificate (戸籍謄本等) under Article 10(1) or Article 10-2(1) to (5) — or, for a request by a national or local government body under Article 10-2(2), the official with authority to make it — as distinct from anyone, such as an agent, who handles the request for them.
未成年者の後見
Guardianship (後見) that begins under Article 838, item 1 of the Civil Code — when no one exercises parental authority (親権) over a minor, or the person who does has no authority to manage the minor's property (管理権).
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive with their senses, of a kind a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) specifies as used for computer processing.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものとして法務省令で定めるもの
A ruling, decision or other disposition on an administrative appeal.
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.
The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026).
Where a notification or application requires entries in family registers (戸籍) at two or more city, town or village offices and the mayor who received it is a designated mayor (指定市町村長), any other mayor who must make one of those entries and is also a designated mayor.
Short name, in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 43 of 1999, for the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (Act No. 42 of 1999).
処分等の行為
A permission or other administrative act made under the laws as they stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions deal with.
申請等の行為
An application for permission or other act still pending under the pre-amendment laws when the amendment took effect.
The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.