The method specified by Ministry of Justice Order prescribed in Article 2 of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Enforcement Order; Article 2, paragraph (2) and Article 3 of the Order for Enforcement of the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan; and Articles 18 and 25 of the Cabinet Order on the Arrangement of Related Cabinet Orders and on Transitional Measures upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, and Other Matters is any of the following methods:
a method of transmitting, by operating a computer (including input/output devices) that the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency has the mayor of the municipality (in the case of a special ward, the head of the ward) use, to a computer used by the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency through a telecommunications line;
出入国在留管理庁長官が市町村長（特別区にあっては、区長）に使用させる電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。）の操作により電気通信回線を通じて出入国在留管理庁長官の使用に係る電子計算機に送信する方法
a method of sending an electromagnetic record medium (meaning a recording medium pertaining to an electromagnetic record) or a document (limited to the case where the method in the preceding item cannot be used due to a failure of the telecommunications line or any other reason).
電磁的記録媒体（電磁的記録に係る記録媒体をいう。）又は書面を送付する方法（電気通信回線の故障その他の事由により前号の方法によることができない場合に限る。）