A person who forges or alters a residence card, or a residence card electronic or magnetic record that is to be displayed and used as a residence card (referred to as a "residence card, etc." in the following paragraph and paragraph (3)), for the purpose of uttering is punished with imprisonment for not less than 1 year but not more than 10 years.
行使の目的で、在留カード又は在留カードとして表示されて行使されることとなる在留カード電磁的記録（次項及び第三項において「在留カード等」という。）を偽造し、又は変造した者は、一年以上十年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
The preceding paragraph also applies to a person who uses a forged or altered residence card, etc.
Paragraph (1) also applies to a person who provides or receives a forged or altered residence card, etc. for the purpose of uttering.
Paragraph (1) also applies to a person who unlawfully creates a residence card electronic or magnetic record for the purpose of causing another person to err in the processing of their affairs.
人の事務処理を誤らせる目的で、在留カード電磁的記録を不正に作つた者も、第一項と同様とする。
Paragraph (1) also applies to a person who, for the purpose set forth in the preceding paragraph, puts an unlawfully created residence card electronic or magnetic record to use in the processing of another person's affairs.
不正に作られた在留カード電磁的記録を、前項の目的で、人の事務処理の用に供した者も、第一項と同様とする。
Paragraph (1) also applies to a person who, for the purpose set forth in paragraph (4), provides or receives a residence card on which an unlawfully created residence card electronic or magnetic record is recorded.
不正に作られた在留カード電磁的記録が記録された在留カードを、第四項の目的で、提供し、又は収受した者も、第一項と同様とする。
An attempt to commit the crimes referred to in the preceding paragraphs is punishable.
前各項の罪の未遂は、罰する。
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residence card electronic or magnetic recordmachine translation
「在留カード電磁的記録」
The information recorded electronically on a residence card under Article 19-4(5).
Short name set inArticle 19-13, paragraph (1)
residence card, etc.machine translation
「在留カード等」
A residence card (在留カード), or a residence card electronic record (在留カード電磁的記録) that is to be displayed and used as a residence card.
Short name set inArticle 73-3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 73-3, paragraphs (2) and (3)
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.