The Agency is to designate, for each mayor of a municipality, the resident record codes that the mayor of the municipality may enter in a certificate of residence, and notify the mayor of the municipality of the codes, as specified by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order.
When the Agency designates a resident record code under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Agency must ensure that the resident record code designated to the mayor of the municipality does not duplicate a resident record code designated before that designation.
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Designation of Resident Record Code
The Agency is to designate, for each mayor of a municipality, the resident record codes that the mayor of the municipality may enter in a certificate of residence…
機構は、総務省令で定めるところにより、市町村長ごとに、当該市町村長が住民票に記載することのできる住民票コードを指定し、これを当該市町村長に通知するものとする。
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「住民票コード」
The resident record code: a number, symbol or other code, of a form set by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令), entered on each person's certificate of residence (住民票) under Article 7, item (xiii).
Defined inArticle 7, paragraph (1), item (xiii)
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「機構」
The Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems (地方公共団体情報システム機構), which designates the resident record codes (住民票コード) municipal mayors may use and keeps the identity confirmation information (本人確認情報) that prefectural governors pass to it.
Short name set inArticle 19-3, paragraph (1)