Article 15-4Issuance of a Copy of a Certificate of Residence under Article 12-4, paragraph (1) of the Act
第十五条の四（法第十二条の四第一項の規定による住民票の写しの交付）
When the mayor of the issuing municipality (meaning the mayor of the issuing municipality prescribed in Article 12-4, paragraph (2) of the Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) prepares a copy of a certificate of residence pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article, the mayor must do so based on the notification under the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article.
交付地市町村長（法第十二条の四第二項に規定する交付地市町村長をいう。次項において同じ。）は、同条第四項の規定により住民票の写しを作成する場合には、同条第三項の規定による通知に基づかなければならない。
The mayor of the issuing municipality must state, at the end of the copy of the certificate of residence prepared pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that the matters entered in the certificate of residence relating to the request were notified, under Article 12-4, paragraph (3) of the Act, by the mayor of the municipality of domicile prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article, and that the copy of the certificate of residence was prepared based on that notice.
交付地市町村長は、前項の規定により作成した住民票の写しの末尾に、法第十二条の四第一項に規定する住所地市町村長から当該請求に係る住民票に記載されている事項が同条第三項の規定により通知され、当該住民票の写しが当該通知に基づき作成されたものである旨を記載しなければならない。
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「交付地市町村長」
In Article 15-4, the mayor of the issuing municipality as defined in Article 12-4, paragraph (2) of the Residential Basic Book Act: the mayor of a municipality other than a person's own to whom that person applies for a copy of the certificate of residence (住民票) of themselves or a member of their household.
Defined inArticle 15-4, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 15-4, paragraph (2)