Supplementary Provisions, Article 7
第七条
The provisions of Article 61-2-2 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 also apply to a foreign national, other than a person who, at the time the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 comes into effect, is residing in Japan with a status of residence set forth in the left-hand column of Appended Table I or II of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2, a person who has been granted landing permission for temporary refuge and for whom the period stated in the permit has not elapsed, or a special permanent resident, who is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, to have received a recognition of refugee status or a disposition not to recognize refugee status under the provisions of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2. In this case, the phrase "in the case of recognizing a person as a refugee pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, where the person who filed the application under that paragraph" in Article 61-2-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 is replaced with "who has been recognized as a refugee pursuant to the provisions of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 2 of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (hereinafter referred to as the 'Former Act')", and the phrase "when making a disposition not to recognize as a refugee a foreign national without a status of residence who has filed the application under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, or in the preceding paragraph" in paragraph (2) of that Article is replaced with "when a disposition not to recognize a foreign national without a status of residence as a refugee has been made pursuant to the provisions of the Former Act (excluding when a written deportation order has been issued), or in the preceding paragraph as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act".
第二条の規定による改正後の出入国管理及び難民認定法第六十一条の二の二の規定は、第二条の規定による改正後の出入国管理及び難民認定法の施行の際現に第二条の規定による改正後の出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一又は別表第二の上欄の在留資格をもって本邦に在留する者、一時庇護のための上陸の許可を受けた者で当該許可書に記載された期間を経過していないもの及び特別永住者以外の外国人であって、前条の規定により第二条の規定による改正後の出入国管理及び難民認定法の規定による難民の認定又は難民の認定をしない処分を受けたとみなされるものに対しても、適用する。この場合において、第二条の規定による改正後の出入国管理及び難民認定法第六十一条の二の二第一項中「前条第一項の規定により難民の認定をする場合であつて、同項の申請をした」とあるのは「出入国管理及び難民認定法の一部を改正する法律第二条の規定による改正前の出入国管理及び難民認定法（以下「旧法」という。）の規定による難民の認定を受けている」と、同条第二項中「前条第一項の申請をした在留資格未取得外国人について、難民の認定をしない処分をするとき、又は前項」とあるのは「在留資格未取得外国人について、旧法の規定による難民の認定をしない処分がされているとき（退去強制令書の発付を受けているときを除く。）、又は出入国管理及び難民認定法の一部を改正する法律附則第七条の規定により適用される前項」とする。
foreign national
「外国人」
Anyone who does not hold Japanese nationality.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
special permanent residentmachine translation
「特別永住者」
A special permanent resident: a person who lost Japanese nationality under the Treaty of Peace with Japan, or a descendant of such a person, who may live permanently in Japan under the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan (特例法).
Short name set inArticle 6, paragraph (3), item (i)
recognition of refugee statusmachine translation
「難民の認定」
The Minister of Justice's recognition, on the application of a foreign national in Japan, that the person is a refugee.
Short name set inArticle 61-2, paragraph (1)
foreign national without a status of residencemachine translation
「在留資格未取得外国人」
A foreign national in Japan who holds no status of residence (在留資格): anyone other than a person staying under a status in Appended Table I or II, a person whose landing permission for temporary refuge has not yet run out, or a special permanent resident.
Defined inArticle 61-2-2, paragraph (1)
the Former Actmachine translation
「旧法」
The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as it stood before Article 2 of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Act No. 73 of 2004) amended it; the term appears in the substitute wording that Article 7 of that Act's supplementary provisions (附則) gives Article 61-2-2, so that the Article also covers certain people recognized as refugees, or refused recognition, under the earlier wording.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)