Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures
第二条（経過措置）
With regard to a removed certificate of residence (meaning a removed certificate of residence prescribed in Article 15-2, paragraph (1) of the Residential Basic Book Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) for which five years have elapsed counting from the day on which the mayor of a municipality (including the head of a special ward) deleted or re-prepared the certificate of residence pertaining to that removed certificate of residence, the provisions of Article 30-14, paragraph (7) of the Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act after amendment by the provisions of Article 1 do not apply until the date specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Use of Information and Communications Technology in Administrative Procedures, etc., and Other Acts to Improve Convenience for Persons Concerned in Administrative Procedures, etc. and to Simplify and Streamline Administrative Operations through the Use of Information and Communications Technology (Act No. 16 of 2019).
市町村長（特別区の区長を含む。）がその除票（住民基本台帳法第十五条の二第一項に規定する除票をいう。以下この項において同じ。）に係る住民票を消除し、又は改製した日から起算して五年を経過している除票については、情報通信技術の活用による行政手続等に係る関係者の利便性の向上並びに行政運営の簡素化及び効率化を図るための行政手続等における情報通信の技術の利用に関する法律等の一部を改正する法律（令和元年法律第十六号）附則第四条第二項に規定する政令で定める日までの間は、第一条の規定による改正後の住民基本台帳法施行令第三十条の十四第七項の規定は、適用しない。
For the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), heads of wards and administratively consolidated ward mayors are deemed to be mayors of cities.
地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市に対する前項の規定の適用については、区長及び総合区長を市長とみなす。
special ward
特別区
A ward (区) of a metropolis (都) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 281, paragraph (1)). Today the only special wards are the 23 wards of Tokyo. A special ward is a basic local government in its own right: it does, in general, the work a city, town or village (市町村) does elsewhere, apart from what the metropolis does across all the wards as one (Article 281-2, paragraph (2)). Where a law or order gives a city (市) work to do, its provisions on that work also apply to a special ward, for the work the ward does (Article 281, paragraph (2), and Article 283, paragraph (2)); a Cabinet Order (政令) can make special rules where they cannot apply as they stand (Article 283, paragraph (3)).
Written by AI using Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 281, 281-2, 283 as a reference.