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.

①Where 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.