The Agency is to, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, prepare an Individual Number Card for a person recorded in the basic resident register or a person recorded in a family register supplement (limited to a person who has moved out of Japan; the same applies in paragraph (4)), based on the application of that person.
The application referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be filed with the Agency either directly or via the mayor of the municipality that maintains the basic resident register (for a person who has moved out of Japan, the family register supplement; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (5)) in which the person seeking to receive the Individual Number Card is recorded (or, if there are circumstances specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in which filing the application via the mayor of a municipality other than that municipality contributes to the convenience of the person seeking to receive the Individual Number Card and to the prompt delivery of the Individual Number Card, via the mayor of that other municipality or of the municipality that maintains said basic resident register).
A person recorded in the basic resident register who files the application referred to in paragraph (1) via the mayor of a municipality pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (limited to a person for whom the measure set forth in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the following Article has been taken by the mayor of that municipality) and who falls under the persons specified by Cabinet Order as persons who need to receive an Individual Number Card promptly may, together with that application, make a request to the effect that the person wishes to have the Individual Number Card sent to them by the Agency.
A person recorded in a family register supplement may, together with the application referred to in paragraph (1), make a request to the effect that the person wishes to receive the handover of the Individual Number Card from a consular officer (including the head of an embassy or legation performing the duties of a consular officer and other persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or a person acting on their behalf in those duties; the same applies hereinafter) or from the mayor of a municipality other than the municipality that maintains said family register supplement.
If the Agency has prepared an Individual Number Card (excluding one pertaining to a person who has made a request referred to in the preceding two paragraphs; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) based on the application referred to in paragraph (1), the Agency is to send said Individual Number Card to the mayor of the municipality that maintains the basic resident register in which the person who filed that application is recorded.
If the Agency has prepared, based on the application referred to in paragraph (1), an Individual Number Card pertaining to a person who has made the request referred to in paragraph (3) (limited to cases in which the mayor of the municipality referred to in that paragraph has notified the Agency that the measure provided for in that paragraph has been taken for that person), the Agency is to notify the mayor of the municipality that maintains the basic resident register in which that person is recorded that it has prepared said Individual Number Card.
If the Agency has prepared, based on the application referred to in paragraph (1), an Individual Number Card pertaining to a person who has made the request referred to in paragraph (4), the Agency is to notify the mayor of the municipality that maintains the family register supplement in which that person is recorded that it has prepared said Individual Number Card, and is to send said Individual Number Card, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, to the consular officer or the mayor of the municipality to which that request pertains.
The Agency is to conduct, with regard to Individual Number Cards, the management of the status of the preparation and sending of Individual Number Cards (referred to as "issuance of Individual Number Cards" in Article 18-6, paragraph (1) and paragraph (3), item (i)) and of the status of the operation of Individual Number Cards, and other processes specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.