Cabinet Order on the Arrangement of Related Cabinet Orders and on Transitional Measures upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, and Other Matters

出入国管理及び難民認定法及び日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法の一部を改正する等の法律の施行に伴う関係政令の整備及び経過措置に関する政令（しゅつにゅうこくかんりおよびなんみんにんていほうおよびにほんこくとのへいわじょうやくにもとづきにほんのこくせきをりだつしたものとうのほうりつのしこうにともなうかんけいせいれいのせいびおよびけいかそちにかんするせいれい）

A Cabinet Order (政令) made to put into effect Act No. 79 of 2009, which repealed the Alien Registration Act (外国人登録法), of which the text held here is only Chapter 2, its transitional measures (経過措置): what municipal offices did, and in a few cases still do, with applications, residence notifications and certificates as alien registration certificates gave way to residence cards (在留カード) and special permanent resident certificates ().

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Only Chapter 2 of this Order, Articles 16 to 27 — its transitional measures (経過措置) — is in the text held here. Several of the remaining articles deal with steps taken before or on 9 July 2012, the day Act No. 79 of 2009 came into force; those on residence notifications and certificates (Articles 18, 19, 23, 25 and 26) can still apply.(Chapter 2, Art. 16(1), Art. 17(1), Art. 21(1), Art. 24(1), Suppl. Prov. Art. 1(1)) (the provisions it rests on)

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Before the changeover, when a foreign national registered under the former Alien Registration Act made, in the month before 9 July 2012, an alien-registration application that counted as an advance application for a residence card, or a special permanent resident applied in advance for a special permanent resident certificate, the mayor (市町村の長) copied the passport and the application (for an actual special permanent resident application, the documents shown), sent the copies to the Minister of Justice (法務大臣), with one of the two photographs for a deemed application, and later reported changes of registration. On 9 July 2012 mayors sent the Minister the name, date of birth, sex, nationality or region, address and alien registration number of every foreign resident (外国人住民) on their register, and they had also reported each provisional resident record (仮住民票) made under Act No. 77 of 2009.(Art. 16(1), Art. 16(2), Art. 16(3), Art. 17(1), Art. 20(1), Art. 21(1), Art. 22(1), Art. 22(2), Art. 24(1), Suppl. Prov. Art. 1(1), Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 13(2), Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 13(5)) (the provisions it rests on)
A mid- to long-term resident (中長期在留者) registered under the former Act whose registered address on 8 July 2012 was not their place of residence (住居地) must notify their place of residence under Act No. 79 of 2009 within 14 days — from 9 July 2012, or from settling one later — and so, from the day they were issued a residence card, must one who then held no registration certificate or had never applied for registration. When such a notification is made, the mayor passes on to the Minister of Justice their name, date of birth, sex, nationality or region, place of residence, residence card number (or registration number, where they hand in a registration certificate still treated as their card), the date and kind of the notice and, for a place settled later, the day they settled it. The mayor writes the place of residence on the card, or on the registration certificate, together with the date of the notice.(Art. 18(1), Art. 18(1)(i), Art. 18(1)(ii), Art. 18(1)(iii), Art. 18(1)(iv), Art. 18(1)(v), Art. 19(1), Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Enforcement Order Art. 3(1), Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 17(1), Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 18(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
The same applies to a special permanent resident registered under the former Act whose registered address on 8 July 2012 was not their place of residence: when they notify it, the mayor passes the same details on to the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency (出入国在留管理庁長官), with the special permanent resident certificate's number or the registration number, and writes the place of residence and the date of the notice on the certificate or registration certificate.(Art. 25(1), Art. 25(1)(i), Art. 25(1)(ii), Art. 25(1)(iii), Art. 25(1)(iv), Art. 25(1)(v), Art. 26(1), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 30(1), Order for Enforcement of the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Art. 4(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
A special permanent resident still holding a registration certificate that Act No. 79 of 2009 treats as their special permanent resident certificate — for one under 16 on 9 July 2012, until their 16th birthday — may apply through the municipal office for a certificate before then, and must apply to renew it between six months before that birthday and the birthday itself, as Article 12(1) of the Special Act read before 1 November 2023, a wording Article 22 of the supplementary provisions of Act No. 56 of 2023 keeps for such certificates; failing to apply is punishable under Article 31 of the Special Act. On an application for a certificate, the mayor copies the passport the holder shows and sends the copy to the Commissioner, records the date of issue on the new certificate, and tells the Commissioner of the issue.(Art. 23(1), Art. 23(2), Order for Enforcement of the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Art. 1(1), Order for Enforcement of the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Art. 2(1), Ministerial Order on the Arrangement of Ministerial Orders Related to the Ministry of Justice and on Transitional Measures upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, and Other Matters Art. 21(4), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 28(1), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 28(2)(i), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 28(3), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 22(1), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 22(4), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Art. 12(1) from 17 June 2022, Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Art. 31(1)(ii)) (the provisions it rests on)

Applications before the changeoverResidence notices of mid- to long-term residentsProvisional resident recordsCertificate in place of a registration certificateResidence notices of special permanent residentsCategory of municipal work

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Chapter II Transitional Measures第二章　経過措置Articles 16–27 · 12

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1 April 2019
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Cabinet Order on the Arrangement, etc. of Related Cabinet Orders upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Justice
出入国管理及び難民認定法及び法務省設置法の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係政令の整備等に関する政令
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1 April 2016
Cabinet Order Partially Amending the Order for Enforcement of the Local Autonomy Act, etc.
地方自治法施行令等の一部を改正する政令
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Who it applies to

It applies to

Mayors of municipalities (市町村の長) — including Tokyo's special wards and the wards of designated cities — who receive the applications and notifications of the changeover and pass them on.(Art. 16(1), Art. 18(1), Art. 25(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
Mid- to long-term residents and special permanent residents whose transitional residence notifications under Act No. 79 of 2009 the mayor passes on, and special permanent residents who still hold a registration certificate treated as their special permanent resident certificate.(Art. 18(1), Art. 23(1), Art. 25(1), Art. 26(1), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 28(1)) (the provisions it rests on)

How it is enforced (4)

This Cabinet Order sets no penalties. Act No. 79 of 2009 punishes failing to notify the place of residence under its transitional rules with a fine of up to 200,000 yen, and a false notification with imprisonment (拘禁刑) of up to one year or a fine of up to 200,000 yen.(Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 37(1)(ii), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 38(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
Under Act No. 79 of 2009, the Minister of Justice may revoke the status of residence (在留資格) of a mid- to long-term resident bound by those notification rules who, without good reason, did not notify their place of residence within 90 days of 9 July 2012, or who notified a false one.(Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 23(1), Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 23(1)(i), Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 23(1)(ii)) (the provisions it rests on)
A foreign national sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑) under Act No. 79 of 2009 — for a false transitional residence notification, for not applying for a card or certificate as it required, or for misusing a registration certificate — can be deported (退去強制), under the Immigration Control Act's procedure.(Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 24(1), Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Suppl. Prov. Art. 24(2), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 37(1), Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan Suppl. Prov. Art. 39(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
The municipal work of Articles 16, 17, 22 and 24 (copies and notices about the changeover applications), the writing of the place of residence and the notice date on cards and certificates under Articles 19 and 26, and the work on applications for a special permanent resident certificate under Articles 22 to 24 is a Type 1 statutory entrusted function (第一号法定受託事務) under the Local Autonomy Act (地方自治法).(Art. 27(1)) (the provisions it rests on)

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