Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Enforcement Order

The mayor of a municipality (including special wards, and wards or administratively consolidated wards in the designated cities prescribed in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947); the same applies hereinafter) is to, in case a notification filed under the provisions of Article 19-7, paragraph (1) of the Act (including notifications which are, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article, deemed to be filed under paragraph (1) of the same Article; the same applies hereinafter), a notification filed under the provisions of Article 19-8, paragraph (1) of the Act (including notifications which are, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article, deemed to be filed under paragraph (1) of the same Article; the same applies hereinafter), or a notification filed under the provisions of Article 19-9, paragraph (1) of the Act (including notifications which are, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article, deemed to be filed under paragraph (1) of the same Article; the same applies hereinafter) is received, relay the following details of that notification from the computer (including any input or output device) which the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency makes available for use to the mayor of the municipality to the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency via telecommunication line, or other method specified in a Ministry of Justice Order:

the name, date of birth, sex, country of nationality or the region referred to in Article 2, item (v) (b) of the Act, and the place of residence of the mid-to long-term resident who filed the notification;

the number of the residence card submitted by the mid-to long-term resident who filed the notification;

the date of filing of the notification;

distinction as to whether the notification is a notification filed under the provisions of Article 19-7, paragraph (1) of the Act, a notification filed under the provisions of Article 19-8, paragraph (1) of the Act, or a notification filed under the provisions of Article 19-9, paragraph (1) of the Act; provided, however, that if the following sub-items (a) through (c) apply, the relevant matters specified in (a) to (c) apply instead;

if a notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-7, paragraph (3) of the Act, deemed to be filed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the same Article, is received:that the relevant notification is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-46 of the Residential Basic Book Act (Act No. 81 of 1967);

if a notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-8, paragraph (3) of the Act, which is deemed to be filed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the same Article, is received:distinction as to whether the relevant notification is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-46 or Article 30-47 of the Residential Basic Book Act;

if a notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-9, paragraph (3) of the Act, which is deemed to be filed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the same Article, is received:distinction as to whether the relevant notification is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 22, Article 23, or Article 30-46 of the Residential Basic Book Act;

if a notification is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-7, paragraph (1) of the Act or the provisions of Article 19-8, paragraph (1) of the Act (excluding notifications which, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article, are deemed to be filed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the same Article, and are thus filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-47 of the Residential Basic Book Act), the date of settling on a place of residence (excluding the date on which the person specified in Article 19-8, paragraph (1) of the Act who has already settled on a place of residence has settled on the relevant place of residence); and

if a notification is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-9, paragraph (1) of the Act, the date on which the move to the new place of residence (referring to the place of residence following the change) took place as well as the place of residence immediately prior to the filing of the relevant notification (excluding the place of residence immediately prior to the notification being filed where, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article, the notification is deemed to be filed under paragraph (1) of the same Article, and is thus filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-46 of the Residential Basic Book Act).

The mayor of a municipality must also enter the date on which the notification was filed by submitting the relevant residence card, and record it by electromagnetic means, when entering the place of residence onto the residence card pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-7, paragraph (2) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 19-8, paragraph (2) and Article 19-9, paragraph (2) of the Act).

The persons specified by Cabinet Order in Article 19-15-2, paragraph (3) of the Act are as follows:

a mid- to long-term resident (limited to a person who has never received the issuance of a specified residence card or an Individual Number Card (meaning an Individual Number Card prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (7) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013; hereinafter referred to as the "Number Use Act"); the same applies hereinafter)) who, on the date of the application pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-15-2, paragraph (2) of the Act, has not reached the age specified by Ministry of Justice Order in Article 19-4, paragraph (3) of the Act;

in addition to the persons set forth in the preceding item, a person specified by Ministry of Justice Order as a person who needs to receive the issuance of a specified residence card promptly.

When the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency prepares a specified residence card pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-15-2, paragraph (4) of the Act, the Commissioner is to have the specified residence card undergo the measures for adding the functions of an Individual Number Card in accordance with the procedures prescribed in the provisions of Article 18-5 of the Number Use Act.

When the mayor of the municipality of domicile issues a specified residence card pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-15-2, paragraph (6) of the Act, the mayor is to record the date of issuance on the specified residence card by electromagnetic means.

When the mayor of the municipality of domicile has issued a specified residence card pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-15-2, paragraph (6) of the Act, the mayor is to notify the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency of that fact, the date of issuance and the number of the specified residence card.

The notification to be made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to be made from the computer (including any input or output device) which the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency makes available for use to the mayor of the municipality of domicile, via telecommunication line using a method for transmission to the computer used by the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency or other methods specified in a Ministry of Justice Order.

The sending of a specified residence card pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-15-2, paragraph (7) of the Act is to be carried out by a method specified by Ministry of Justice Order as one by which the person who made the request pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article can reliably receive it.