A person who possesses a forged or altered residence card (including a residence card on which a forged or altered residence card electronic or magnetic record set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is recorded) for the purpose of uttering is punished with imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine not exceeding 500,000 yen.
行使の目的で、偽造され、又は変造された在留カード（偽造され、又は変造された前条第一項の在留カード電磁的記録が記録されたものを含む。）を所持した者は、五年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
The preceding paragraph also applies to a person who, for the purpose of causing another person to err in the processing of their affairs, possesses a residence card on which an unlawfully created residence card electronic or magnetic record is recorded.
人の事務処理を誤らせる目的で、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所持した者も、前項と同様とする。
Paragraph (1) also applies to a person who keeps a forged, altered or unlawfully created residence card electronic or magnetic record for the purpose of uttering or for the purpose of causing another person to err in the processing of their affairs.
行使の目的又は人の事務処理を誤らせる目的で、偽造され、若しくは変造され、又は不正に作られた在留カード電磁的記録を保管した者も、第一項と同様とする。
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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)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
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.