If a person listed in the left-hand column of the table in the preceding Article (excluding a person in transitional stay due to birth or a person in transitional stay due to loss of nationality; hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as a "mid- to long-term resident, etc.") has moved in from outside Japan (including a case specified by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order as a case equivalent thereto), the mid- to long-term resident, etc. must, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 22, notify the mayor of the municipality, within 14 days from the day of moving in, of the matters listed in paragraph (1), items (i), (ii), and (v) of that Article, the date of birth, sex, nationality, etc., the date on which the person became a foreign resident, and the matters listed in the right-hand column of that table corresponding to the classification of the person listed in the left-hand column of that table. In this case, the mid- to long-term resident, etc. must present to the mayor of the municipality the residence card, special permanent resident certificate, or certificate of permission for provisional stay prescribed in the right-hand column of that table corresponding to the classification of the person listed in the left-hand column of that table (or, for a person granted landing permission for temporary refuge, the certificate of landing permission for temporary refuge prescribed in Article 18-2, paragraph (3) of the Immigration Control Act).

If a person who does not have Japanese nationality (excluding a person listed in the left-hand column of the table in Article 30-45) and who has an address within the area of a municipality has become a mid- to long-term resident, etc., the person who has become the mid- to long-term resident, etc. must notify the mayor of the municipality, within 14 days from the day of becoming the mid- to long-term resident, etc., of the matters listed in Article 22, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii), and (v), the date of birth, sex, nationality, etc., the date on which the person became a foreign resident, and the matters listed in the right-hand column of that table corresponding to the classification of the person listed in the left-hand column of that table. In this case, the provisions of the second sentence of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis.

Except in the cases set forth in Article 22, paragraph (1), Article 23, Article 25, and the preceding two Articles, a foreign resident who is not a householder and whose relationship with the resident's householder (limited to one who is a foreign resident) has changed must, within 14 days from the day of the change, notify the mayor of the municipality of the resident's name, relationship with the householder, and the date of the change, accompanied by a document certifying the relationship with the householder; provided, however, that this does not apply in a case specified by Cabinet Order.

A foreign resident who is not a householder and whose householder is a foreign resident must, when making a notification under the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (1), Article 23, Article 25, Article 30-46, or Article 30-47, make the notification prescribed in those provisions accompanied by a document certifying the relationship with the householder; provided, however, that this does not apply in a case specified by Cabinet Order.

When the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency, in managing or executing the affairs specified in the Immigration Control Act and the Immigration Control Special Act, has learned that there has been a change in, or an error in, the matters listed in Article 7, items (i), (ii), and (iii), the nationality, etc., or the matters listed in the right-hand column of the table in Article 30-45, concerning a foreign resident, the Commissioner must, without delay, notify the mayor of the municipality that keeps the basic resident register in which that foreign resident is recorded to that effect.