Article 16Affairs of Municipalities in the Case Where an Application Is Deemed to Be an Application under Article 13, Paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act, etc.
第十六条（改正法附則第十三条第一項の申請とみなされる申請があった場合等の市町村の事務）
Where the mayor of a municipality (including special wards, and, in a designated city prescribed in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), a ward or administratively consolidated ward; the same applies hereinafter) receives from a prospective mid- to long-term resident prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions 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 (hereinafter referred to as the "amending Act") (hereinafter referred to as a "prospective mid- to long-term resident") an application that is deemed, pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article, to be an application under paragraph (1) of that Article, the mayor is to make copies of the passport submitted by that prospective mid- to long-term resident and of the written application for issuance of an alien registration certificate relating to an application under Article 6, paragraph (1) or Article 6-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Alien Registration Act (Act No. 125 of 1952) prior to its repeal under Article 4 of the amending Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former Alien Registration Act"), or of the written application for confirmation of registered particulars relating to an application under Article 11, paragraph (1) of the former Alien Registration Act, and send those copies and one of the two photographs submitted by that foreign national to the Minister of Justice.
市町村（特別区を含むものとし、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあっては、区又は総合区。以下同じ。）の長は、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（以下「改正法」という。）附則第十三条第一項に規定する予定中長期在留者（以下「予定中長期在留者」という。）から同条第五項の規定により同条第一項の規定による申請とみなされる申請があったときは、当該予定中長期在留者から提出された旅券及び改正法第四条の規定による廃止前の外国人登録法（昭和二十七年法律第百二十五号。以下「旧外国人登録法」という。）第六条第一項若しくは第六条の二第一項若しくは第二項の規定による申請に係る外国人登録証明書交付申請書又は旧外国人登録法第十一条第一項の規定による申請に係る登録事項確認申請書の写しを作成し、当該写し及び当該外国人から提出された写真二葉のうちの一葉を法務大臣に送付するものとする。
Where, after an application prescribed in the preceding paragraph has been made, the prospective mid- to long-term resident who made that application makes an application under Article 8, paragraph (1) or (2) of the former Alien Registration Act, the mayor of a municipality is to make a copy of the written application for registration of changes relating to that application and send that copy to the Minister of Justice.
Where, after an application prescribed in paragraph (1) has been made, the mayor of a municipality has made a registration under Article 10, paragraph (1) of the former Alien Registration Act, the mayor is to notify the Minister of Justice to that effect.
市町村の長は、第一項に規定する申請があった後に、旧外国人登録法第十条第一項の規定による登録をしたときは、その旨を法務大臣に通知するものとする。
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