Article 18Use of the Individual Number Card
第十八条（個人番号カードの利用）
An Individual Number Card may be used in measures of identity verification under the provisions of Article 16 of this Act and any person listed in the following items may use an Individual Number Card by recording information necessary for handling the processes specified in said items in part of Individual Number Card that is segmented from the part where Card Information is recorded by electronic or magnetic means pursuant to the provisions of Municipal Ordinance (in the cases set forth in item (ii), Cabinet Order). In this case, these persons must handle the Individual Number Card in accordance with the standards specified by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (referred to as the "competent ministers" in Articles 38-8 through 38-11 and Article 38-13) as necessary for the safe management of Card Information, such as preventing leakage, loss, or damage of Card Information:
個人番号カードは、第十六条の規定による本人確認の措置において利用するほか、次の各号に掲げる者が、条例（第二号の場合にあっては、政令）で定めるところにより、個人番号カードのカード記録事項が記録された部分と区分された部分に、当該各号に定める事務を処理するために必要な事項を電磁的方法により記録して利用することができる。この場合において、これらの者は、カード記録事項の漏えい、滅失又は毀損の防止その他のカード記録事項の安全管理を図るため必要なものとして内閣総理大臣及び総務大臣（第三十八条の八から第三十八条の十一まで及び第三十八条の十三において「主務大臣」という。）が定める基準に従って個人番号カードを取り扱わなければならない。
municipality agencies:processes specified by Municipal Ordinance as contributing to improving the convenience of local residents; and
市町村の機関 地域住民の利便性の向上に資するものとして条例で定める事務
Administrative Organs, local governments, private businesses and other persons that implement processes by identifying specific individuals, and are specified by Cabinet Order:said processes.
特定の個人を識別して行う事務を処理する行政機関、地方公共団体、民間事業者その他の者であって政令で定めるもの 当該事務
Article 18-2Issuance of Card Substitute Electronic Records, etc.
第十八条の二（カード代替電磁的記録の発行等）
A 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.
個人番号カードの交付を受けている者（個人番号カード用署名用電子証明書（電子署名等に係る地方公共団体情報システム機構の認証業務に関する法律（平成十四年法律第百五十三号。以下この条及び第三十八条の八第一項において「公的個人認証法」という。）第三条第一項に規定する個人番号カード用署名用電子証明書をいう。以下この条において同じ。）の発行を受け、当該個人番号カード用署名用電子証明書が効力を失っていない者に限り、第三項又は第十一項の規定により既に自己に係るカード代替電磁的記録の発行を受け、当該カード代替電磁的記録が効力を失っていない者を除く。）は、自己に係るカード代替電磁的記録をその者が使用する移動端末設備（電気通信事業法（昭和五十九年法律第八十六号）第十二条の二第四項第三号ロに規定する移動端末設備をいう。以下この条及び次条第一項において同じ。）に組み込まれた主務省令で定める電磁的記録媒体（電磁的記録に係る記録媒体をいう。以下この条において同じ。）に記録して利用するため、その者の申請により、当該カード代替電磁的記録の発行を受けることができる。
The 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.
When the Agency, having received the transmission under the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, has confirmed that the Individual Number Card signature certificate pertaining to the electronic signature referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph made by the applicant has not become invalid pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Public Personal Authentication Act, and that the electronic signature was performed using the signature user code corresponding to the signature user verification code (meaning a signature user verification code as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Public Personal Authentication Act) recorded in said Individual Number Card signature certificate, the Agency is to, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry, issue the Card Substitute Electronic Record pertaining to that application and transmit it to the mobile terminal equipment referred to in paragraph (1) pertaining to the applicant.
An 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).
A 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).
カード代替電磁的記録の有効期間は、三月以内で主務省令で定める期間（当該期間内に個人番号カードの有効期間が満了する者に係るものにあっては、当該満了の日までの期間）とする。
When 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.
カード代替電磁的記録利用者（カード代替電磁的記録の発行を受けた者をいう。以下この条から第十八条の四までにおいて同じ。）は、自己に係るカード代替電磁的記録を次項の規定による確認を受けることができるものとして提供するときは、次条第一項の認定を受けたプログラム（情報処理の促進に関する法律（昭和四十五年法律第九十号）第二条第二項に規定するプログラムをいう。以下この条から第十八条の四までにおいて同じ。）を用いて当該カード代替電磁的記録の送信を行わなければならない。
A 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.
前項の規定によるカード代替電磁的記録の送信を受けた者は、当該カード代替電磁的記録が当該送信を行った者のものであることの確認について、第十八条の四第一項の規定により内閣総理大臣が提供するプログラム又は同条第二項の認定を受けたプログラムを用いて行うものとする。
If 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.
カード代替電磁的記録利用者は、当該カード代替電磁的記録を記録した第一項の電磁的記録媒体が使用できなくなったときその他当該カード代替電磁的記録を失効させるべき場合として主務省令で定める場合には、主務省令で定めるところにより、速やかにその旨を機構に届け出なければならない。
A Card Substitute Electronic Record is to become invalid when any of the grounds set forth in the following items applies:
カード代替電磁的記録は、次の各号に掲げる事由のいずれかに該当するときは、その効力を失うものとする。
when the Individual Number Card of the Card Substitute Electronic Record User becomes invalid pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (10) or Article 18-5, paragraph (8) or (10), or the Individual Number Card signature certificate of the Card Substitute Electronic Record User becomes invalid pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Public Personal Authentication Act;
第十七条第十項若しくは第十八条の五第八項若しくは第十項の規定により当該カード代替電磁的記録利用者の個人番号カードが失効し、又は公的個人認証法第十五条第一項の規定により当該カード代替電磁的記録利用者の個人番号カード用署名用電子証明書が失効したとき。
when the Card Substitute Electronic Record expires;
カード代替電磁的記録の有効期間が満了したとき。
when the Agency receives the notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph from the Card Substitute Electronic Record User;
機構が当該カード代替電磁的記録利用者から前項の規定による届出を受けたとき。
when it is found that there is an error or omission in the information recorded in the Card Substitute Electronic Record; or
カード代替電磁的記録に記録された事項について、記録誤り又は記録漏れがあることが判明したとき。
beyond what is provided for in the preceding items, in cases specified by order of the competent ministry.
When 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.
If 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).
If 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.
機構は、第三項若しくは前項の規定によりカード代替電磁的記録を発行した場合又は第九項の規定によりカード代替電磁的記録の効力が失われた場合には、主務省令で定めるところにより、当該カード代替電磁的記録に係るカード代替電磁的記録利用者が記録されている住民基本台帳（国外転出者にあっては、戸籍の附票）を備える市町村の長に対し、主務省令で定める事項を通知するものとする。
The 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.
機構は、カード代替電磁的記録に関して、カード代替電磁的記録の発行及び運用に関する状況の管理その他主務省令で定める事務を行うものとする。
In 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.
前各項に定めるもののほか、第十一項の規定によるカード代替電磁的記録の発行及び送信の手続その他カード代替電磁的記録に関し必要な事項は、主務省令で定める。
Article 18-3Certification of Programs for Transmitting Card Substitute Electronic Records
第十八条の三（カード代替電磁的記録送信用プログラムの認定）
The Prime Minister may, upon the application of a person who provides a program for transmitting Card Substitute Electronic Records from mobile terminal equipment, certify that the program meets the following standards:
内閣総理大臣は、移動端末設備からカード代替電磁的記録の送信を行うためのプログラムについて、当該プログラムを提供する者の申請により、次に掲げる基準を満たすものである旨の認定をすることができる。
when a Card Substitute Electronic Record is about to be transmitted, it has the function of automatically connecting to a telecommunications line and confirming that the notice under the first sentence of paragraph (10) of the preceding Article (referred to as a "notice of invalidation" in this item and the following item) has not been transmitted to said mobile terminal equipment, and, if there is a notice of invalidation that said mobile terminal equipment should receive, receiving that notice of invalidation;
カード代替電磁的記録を送信しようとする場合には、自動的に、電気通信回線に接続して当該移動端末設備に対して前条第十項前段の規定による通知（以下この号及び次号において「失効通知」という。）の送信が行われていないことの確認及び当該移動端末設備が受信すべき失効通知があった場合における当該失効通知の受信を行う機能を有するものであること。
if said mobile terminal equipment has received a notice of invalidation, it has the function of transmitting a notice to that effect to the Agency and of making it impossible to transmit the Card Substitute Electronic Record to which that notice of invalidation pertains;
当該移動端末設備が失効通知を受信した場合には、その旨の通知を機構に対して送信するとともに、当該失効通知に係るカード代替電磁的記録の送信を行うことができなくなる機能を有するものであること。
in transmitting a Card Substitute Electronic Record, it has the function of performing the measures specified by order of the competent ministry as measures for confirming that it is the Card Substitute Electronic Record User pertaining to said Card Substitute Electronic Record who makes that transmission; and
カード代替電磁的記録の送信を行うに当たり、当該カード代替電磁的記録に係るカード代替電磁的記録利用者が当該送信を行うことを確認するための措置として主務省令で定めるものを行う機能を有するものであること。
it conforms to other standards specified by order of the competent ministry.
その他主務省令で定める基準に適合するものであること。
When the Prime Minister has granted the certification referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister is to give public notice to that effect pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry.
The Prime Minister is to take the necessary measures so that a Card Substitute Electronic Record User who intends to transmit a Card Substitute Electronic Record under the provisions of paragraph (6) of the preceding Article can readily use a program that has received the certification referred to in paragraph (1).
内閣総理大臣は、前条第六項の規定によるカード代替電磁的記録の送信を行おうとするカード代替電磁的記録利用者が第一項の認定を受けたプログラムを容易に利用することができるよう必要な措置を講ずるものとする。
In addition to what is provided for in the preceding three paragraphs, necessary matters concerning the certification referred to in paragraph (1) are specified by order of the competent ministry.