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Article 13Restrictions on Issuance of Ordinary Passports

第十三条(一般旅券の発給等の制限)

The Minister for Foreign Affairs or a consular officer may choose not to issue an ordinary passport or add destinations to an ordinary passport, if the person who seeks to be issued an ordinary passport or have destinations added falls under any of the following items:

外務大臣又は領事官は、一般旅券の発給又は渡航先の追加を受けようとする者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、一般旅券の発給又は渡航先の追加をしないことができる。

a person who is not permitted to enter the country pursuant to the laws and regulations enforced in that country of destination;

渡航先に施行されている法規によりその国に入ることを認められない者

a person who is being prosecuted for a crime punishable by the death penalty or a life imprisonment, or imprisonment for a term of 2 years or more, or a person for whom the Minister for Foreign Affairs has been notified of the fact that an arrest warrant, writ of physical escort, detention warrant, or writ of confinement for expert examination has been issued on suspicion of committing those crimes, by a relevant organ;

死刑、無期若しくは長期二年以上の刑に当たる罪につき訴追されている者又はこれらの罪を犯した疑いにより逮捕状、勾引状、勾留状若しくは鑑定留置状が発せられている旨が関係機関から外務大臣に通報されている者

a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment and has not completed the sentence or to whom the sentence still applies;

拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられ、その執行を終わるまで又は執行を受けることがなくなるまでの者

a person who has been sentenced to a punishment pursuant to the provisions of Article 23;

第二十三条の規定により刑に処せられた者

a person who has been sentenced to a punishment pursuant to the provisions of (limited to the part related to ) or for forging a passport or a travel document, or for using a document forged as a passport or a travel document, or for attempting to commit such an offence;

旅券若しくは渡航書を偽造し、又は旅券若しくは渡航書として偽造された文書を行使し、若しくはその未遂罪を犯し、(に係る部分に限る。)又はの規定により刑に処せられた者

among the repatriates prescribed in , those who have become subject to the measures referred to in or those who have received loans under the provisions of or and are likely to become a public charge when they travel abroad; or

に規定する帰国者で、の措置の対象となつたもの又は若しくはの規定による貸付けを受けたもののうち、外国に渡航したときに公共の負担となるおそれがあるもの

in addition to the persons stated in the preceding items, a person for whom the Minister for Foreign Affairs has adequate grounds sufficient to find that they are likely to commit an act that would considerably, and, directly harm the interests or public security of Japan.

前各号に掲げる者を除くほか、外務大臣において、著しく、かつ、直接に日本国の利益又は公安を害する行為を行うおそれがあると認めるに足りる相当の理由がある者

When making the acknowledgment referred to in item (vii) of the preceding paragraph, the Minister for Foreign Affairs must deliberate with the Minister of Justice in advance.

外務大臣は、前項第七号の認定をしようとするときは、あらかじめ法務大臣と協議しなければならない。

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