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Nationality Act

国籍法(こくせきほう)

Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 8 terms: 2 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 6 in our translation, marked as such.

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the effective date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 45 of 1984, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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the effective date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 88 of 2008, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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foreign national

外国人(がいこくじん)

Anyone who does not hold Japanese nationality.

Article 4, paragraph (1)
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the new Nationality Act

新国籍法(しんこくせきほう)

This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 45 of 1984.

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the new Nationality Act

新国籍法(しんこくせきほう)

This Act as amended by Act No. 59 of 2018.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 13, paragraph (1)
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selection declaration

選択の宣言(せんたくのせんげん)

A declaration, made as the Family Register Act provides, that a person with both Japanese and a foreign nationality chooses Japanese nationality and renounces the foreign one; it is the way to choose Japanese nationality other than by giving up the foreign nationality.

Article 14, paragraph (2)
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prior notification

従前の届出(じゅうぜんのとどけで)

A notification to acquire Japanese nationality, made before Act No. 88 of 2008 came into effect and filed as one under Article 3, paragraph 1 of this Act as it stood before that amendment, by a child acknowledged (認知) by their father or mother who did not meet that paragraph's condition of having become a child born in wedlock (嫡出子) through the parents' marriage and that acknowledgment.

この法律の施行の日(以下「施行日」という。)前にこの法律による改正前の国籍法第三条第一項の規定によるものとしてされた同項に規定する父母の婚姻及びその認知により嫡出子たる身分を取得した子に該当しない父又は母が認知した子による日本の国籍の取得に係る届出の行為

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the new Act

新法(しんぽう)

The Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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