Article 55-56Attendance at Visits with Persons Other Than Consular Officers, etc.
第五十五条の五十六（領事官等以外の者との面会の立会い等）
The director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to have an official designated by the director attend visits between a detainee and a person other than the persons listed below (hereinafter referred to as "consular officers, etc." in this Section), or have the official make an audio recording or video recording of the visit; provided, however, that if the director finds that it is not necessary in order to maintain discipline and order or to preserve sanitation at the immigration detention center, etc., the director may decide not to have the attendance and the audio and video recording (referred to as "attendance, etc." in the following paragraph) carried out:
a consular officer of the state of which the detainee is a national or citizen;
被収容者の国籍又は市民権の属する国の領事官
an attorney who is the detainee's counsel in a lawsuit or defense counsel (including an attorney who intends to become such counsel upon request).
被収容者の訴訟代理人又は弁護人である弁護士（依頼によりこれらの者になろうとする弁護士を含む。）
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. must not have attendance, etc. carried out for visits between a detainee and the persons listed below, except in the case where there are special circumstances that give grounds to find that the visit is likely to result in harm to discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc.:
an official of an organ of the national government or of a local government that conducts an investigation concerning measures taken by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. against the detainee or other treatment the detainee has received;
自己に対する入国者収容所長等の措置その他自己が受けた処遇に関し調査を行う国又は地方公共団体の機関の職員
an attorney performing the duties provided for in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Attorney Act (Act No. 205 of 1949) concerning measures taken by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. against the detainee or other treatment the detainee has received.
自己に対する入国者収容所長等の措置その他自己が受けた処遇に関し弁護士法（昭和二十四年法律第二百五号）第三条第一項に規定する職務を遂行する弁護士
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immigration detention center, etc.machine translation
「入国者収容所等」
An immigration detention center, or a detention facility set up at a regional immigration services bureau under Article 55-3(1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvi)· applies throughout the law
detaineemachine translation
「被収容者」
A person held in an immigration detention center or other immigration detention facility.
Defined inArticle 55-4, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter and in Article 71-6
director of an immigration detention center, etc.machine translation
「入国者収容所長等」
The director of an immigration detention center or the director of a regional immigration services bureau.
Short name set inArticle 55-5, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter and in Chapter 8
attendance, etc.machine translation
「立会い等」
A designated staff member sitting in on a detainee's visit with anyone other than a consular officer or their own lawyer, and the audio or video recording of that visit, which the head of the immigration detention facility may dispense with where it is not needed to keep discipline, order or sanitation in the facility.
Short name set inArticle 55-56, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 55-56, paragraph (2)
consular officers, etc.machine translation
「領事官等」
A consular officer of the detainee's country of nationality, or a lawyer acting (or about to act) as the detainee's legal representative or defense counsel — visitors whose meetings staff do not attend or record.
Short name set inArticle 55-56, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section