Article 18-2Issuance of Card Substitute Electronic Records, etc.

①A person who has received an Individual Number Card (limited to a person who has been issued an Individual Number Card signature certificate (meaning an Individual Number Card signature certificate as set forth in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Certification Business of the Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems in Relation to Electronic Signatures, etc. (Act No. 153 of 2002; referred to as the "Public Personal Authentication Act" in this Article and Article 38-8, paragraph (1)); hereinafter the same applies in this Article) that has not become invalid, and excluding a person who has already been issued a Card Substitute Electronic Record pertaining to themselves pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) or (11) that has not become invalid) may, upon that person's application, be issued a Card Substitute Electronic Record pertaining to themselves in order to record it on, and use it from, an electronic or magnetic recording medium (meaning a recording medium for electronic or magnetic records; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) specified by order of the competent ministry that is built into mobile terminal equipment (meaning mobile terminal equipment as set forth in Article 12-2, paragraph (4), item (iii), (b) of the Telecommunications Business Act (Act No. 86 of 1984); hereinafter the same applies in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article) used by that person.

②The application referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be made by the person making that application (referred to as the "applicant" in this paragraph through paragraph (4)) transmitting to the Agency, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry and using the mobile terminal equipment referred to in the preceding paragraph, the electronic or magnetic record pertaining to the Card Substitute Information recorded on the applicant's Individual Number Card. In this case, the applicant must perform an electronic signature using the signature user code (meaning a signature user code as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Public Personal Authentication Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) pertaining to the applicant's Individual Number Card signature certificate.

④An applicant who has received the transmission under the preceding paragraph is to, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry, record the Card Substitute Electronic Record pertaining to that transmission on the electronic or magnetic recording medium referred to in paragraph (1).

⑤A Card Substitute Electronic Record expires at the end of a period, not exceeding three months, specified by order of the competent ministry (for one pertaining to a person whose Individual Number Card expires within that period, the period until the day on which it expires).

⑥When a Card Substitute Electronic Record User (meaning a person who has been issued a Card Substitute Electronic Record; hereinafter the same applies in this Article through Article 18-4) provides the Card Substitute Electronic Record pertaining to themselves as one capable of being verified under the provisions of the following paragraph, the Card Substitute Electronic Record User must transmit said Card Substitute Electronic Record using a program (meaning a program as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Facilitation of Information Processing (Act No. 90 of 1970); hereinafter the same applies in this Article through Article 18-4) that has received the certification referred to in paragraph (1) of the following Article.

⑦A person who has received the transmission of a Card Substitute Electronic Record under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to verify that said Card Substitute Electronic Record belongs to the person who made that transmission by using the program that the Prime Minister provides pursuant to the provisions of Article 18-4, paragraph (1) or a program that has received the certification referred to in paragraph (2) of that Article.

⑧If the electronic or magnetic recording medium referred to in paragraph (1) on which the Card Substitute Electronic Record is recorded can no longer be used, or in other cases specified by order of the competent ministry as cases in which the Card Substitute Electronic Record should be made invalid, the Card Substitute Electronic Record User must, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry, promptly notify the Agency to that effect.

⑨A Card Substitute Electronic Record is to become invalid when any of the grounds set forth in the following items applies:

⑩When a Card Substitute Electronic Record has become invalid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Agency must, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry, immediately take measures to transmit a notice to that effect through a telecommunications line to the mobile terminal equipment into which the electronic or magnetic recording medium on which said Card Substitute Electronic Record is recorded is built. In this case, the Agency must continue those measures until it confirms that said mobile terminal equipment has received that notice.

⑪If a Card Substitute Electronic Record has become invalid on the ground set forth in item (ii) of paragraph (9) or other grounds specified by order of the competent ministry, except where the ground set forth in item (i) of that paragraph applies, the Agency is to promptly issue a new Card Substitute Electronic Record to the person to whom said Card Substitute Electronic Record had been issued, and transmit it to that person's mobile terminal equipment referred to in paragraph (1).

⑫If the Agency has issued a Card Substitute Electronic Record pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) or the preceding paragraph, or if a Card Substitute Electronic Record has become invalid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (9), the Agency is to, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry, notify the mayor of the municipality that maintains the basic resident register (for a person who has moved out of Japan, the family register supplement) in which the Card Substitute Electronic Record User pertaining to said Card Substitute Electronic Record is recorded of the matters specified by order of the competent ministry.

⑬The Agency is to conduct, with regard to Card Substitute Electronic Records, the management of the status of the issuance and operation of Card Substitute Electronic Records and other processes specified by order of the competent ministry.

⑭In addition to what is provided for in the preceding paragraphs, the procedures for the issuance and transmission of Card Substitute Electronic Records under the provisions of paragraph (11) and other necessary matters concerning Card Substitute Electronic Records are specified by order of the competent ministry.