This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 1 year from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items.

In operating the systems of supervision measures in lieu of detention and of provisional release under the Immigration Control Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2"), consideration is to be given to the human rights of a suspect prescribed in Article 27 of the Immigration Control Act or a person subject to deportation (hereinafter referred to as a "suspect, etc." in this Article), efforts are to be made to ensure the appropriateness of decisions, and, in the case of giving notice pursuant to the provisions of Article 44-2, paragraph (9) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 52-2, paragraph (7) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2) or Article 54, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (7) of the same Article), efforts are to be made to ensure the transparency of procedures, such as by stating the reasons in a way that enables the suspect, etc. to understand them accurately.

With regard to the validity period and the extension of a residence card (meaning a residence card prescribed in Article 19-3 of the Immigration Control Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) issued before the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Item (i) Effective Date"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61-8-3, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 in the case where an application for extension of the validity period of a residence card is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-11, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1"), to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the mid- to long-term resident who was issued that residence card (meaning a mid- to long-term resident prescribed in Article 19-3 of the Immigration Control Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and Articles 4 and 5 of the Supplementary Provisions) is deemed to be a person under 16 years of age even if the date of the application is their 16th birthday (if the birthday of the mid- to long-term resident is February 29, the birthday of the mid- to long-term resident in a year other than a leap year is deemed to be February 28).

With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph during the period from the Item (i) Effective Date to the day before the effective date of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), the phrase "Article 61-8-3, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 61-9-3, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act".

The provisions of Article 61-2, paragraph (3) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 1") also apply in the case where, on or after the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Item (ii) Effective Date"), a disposition not to grant Recognition of Refugee Status (meaning Recognition of Refugee Status prescribed in Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 1; the same applies in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) is made with regard to a foreign national who filed an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1 before the Item (ii) Effective Date.

With regard to notification of the place of residence by a person who has newly become a mid- to long-term resident upon receiving, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2") or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, and by a person who has newly become a mid- to long-term resident upon receiving permission pertaining to status of residence to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to revocation of the status of residence of a person who has newly become a mid- to long-term resident upon receiving, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, and of a person residing upon receiving permission pertaining to status of residence to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 23, paragraph (1) (limited to the parts pertaining to items (x) and (xi)) and paragraph (3) (limited to the parts pertaining to the special release permit prescribed in item (x) of paragraph (1) of the same Article and the written permission for provisional release prescribed in item (xi) of the same paragraph, which are included in the passport prescribed in paragraph (3)) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply to a person who is released pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (10) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 or provisionally released pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 on or after the Effective Date, and with regard to the carrying and presentation of the passport, crew member's pocket-ledger, registered user card or permit of a person released pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (6) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or a person provisionally released pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 before the Effective Date, and of a person provisionally released on or after the Effective Date under the provisions then in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Persons residing upon receiving, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1 (limited to persons who have received Recognition of Refugee Status or recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection), and persons residing upon receiving permission pertaining to status of residence to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, whose Recognition of Refugee Status has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-2-10, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 (limited to revocation pertaining to item (i) or (iii)) or whose recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article (limited to revocation pertaining to item (i) or (iii)), may be deported from Japan through the procedures prescribed in Chapter V of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 (including procedures based on the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2), or be made to leave Japan by an order under the provisions of Article 55-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2.

An immigration control officer must, promptly after this Act comes into effect, prepare a plan for departure, in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2, for a person who is actually detained pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (5) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect.

An immigration control officer must endeavor, as promptly as possible after this Act comes into effect, to prepare a plan for departure, in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2, for a person who is actually provisionally released pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect (limited to a person for whom a written deportation order has been issued).

If, after this Act comes into effect, a person prescribed in the preceding paragraph is detained pursuant to the provisions of Article 55, paragraph (4) or (5) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2, to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the following Article, and no plan for departure has been prepared for that person pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an immigration control officer must, promptly after the commencement of that detention, prepare a plan for departure in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2.

If an immigration control officer has prepared a plan for departure pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs for a person prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2), and the period during which that person has been detained upon the issuance of a written deportation order, counted from the Effective Date (for a person prescribed in paragraph (2), the date of commencement of that detention), has reached 3 months continuously, the immigration control officer must promptly submit to the supervising immigration inspector the plan for departure prepared pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs and report on its progress, in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2. In this case, the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraphs (3) through (5) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply mutatis mutandis.

If the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph continues beyond 3 months, an immigration control officer must, each time the period so continuing reaches a further 3 months, promptly report to the supervising immigration inspector on the progress of the plan for departure prepared pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (6) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2. In this case, the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraphs (3) through (5) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply mutatis mutandis.

The provisions of Article 54, paragraphs (2) through (7) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply to dispositions made on or after the Effective Date upon a request for provisional release made pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act or ex officio, and with regard to dispositions (including dispositions concerning payment of the deposit) on a request for provisional release made pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph before the Effective Date on which no disposition has been made at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the effect and revocation of the provisional release of a person who is actually provisionally released pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect or a person who is provisionally released under the provisions then in force pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 55-18 of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 also apply to detainees (meaning detainees prescribed in Article 55-4, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) who are actually detained in an immigration detention center, etc. prescribed in Article 2, item (xvi) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect. In this case, the phrase "upon the commencement of detention at the immigration detention center, etc." in Article 55-18, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 is deemed to be replaced with "promptly after the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan (Act No. 56 of 2023) comes into effect".

Personal belongings (excluding cash) of a detainee that are actually retained pursuant to the provisions of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or an order based on it at the time this Act comes into effect are deemed to be articles set forth in Article 55-25, item (ii) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2, and the provisions of Article 55-28 of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply to them.

Communications of a detainee the sending or receiving of which has been prohibited or restricted pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-7, paragraph (5) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 and which are actually retained pursuant to the provisions of an order based on the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect are deemed to be letters kept pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-64, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2.

With regard to a foreign national without a status of residence (meaning a foreign national without a status of residence prescribed in Article 61-2-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and Articles 15 and 17 of the Supplementary Provisions) who filed an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act (meaning Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, or Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 1; the same applies hereinafter) before the Effective Date, in the case where, on or after the Effective Date, a disposition not to grant Recognition of Refugee Status is made (excluding the case where recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection is granted pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-2, paragraph (3) of the Immigration Control Act (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions)), a disposition not to grant recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection is made, or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act is not granted, and that foreign national without a status of residence has been issued a written deportation order before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern the examination of whether there are circumstances in which that foreign national without a status of residence should be specially permitted to stay, the permission pertaining to status of residence where such circumstances exist, and, where that permission is granted, the revocation of the permission for provisional landing, of the permission for landing under the provisions of Chapter III, Section 4 of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2, or of the permission for landing under the provisions of Chapter III, Section 4 of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1.

The provisions of Article 61-2-3 of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 do not apply to persons who received, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, and persons who received permission pertaining to status of residence to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

With regard to the conditions imposed pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (3) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 on a person who received, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, and the revocation of that permission, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 61-2-7, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply to a person who receives permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act on or after the Effective Date.

With regard to deportation procedures, on the grounds of having fallen under any of the items of Article 24 of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time of receiving the permission, for a foreign national who received, before the Effective Date, permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 or permission under the provisions of Article 61-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 1, and for a foreign national who received, on or after the Effective Date, permission pertaining to status of residence to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply to a foreign national without a status of residence who files an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act on or after the Effective Date.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4), item (i) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 in the case where the foreign national without a status of residence set forth in the preceding paragraph is a person who has filed an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act before the effective date of this Act, the phrase "these applications" in the same item is deemed to be replaced with "these applications (including applications under Article 61-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) filed before the effective date of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, Inter Alia, Those Who Have Lost Japanese Nationality Pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan (Act No. 56 of 2023))", and the phrase "having come to fall" with "having come to fall (including having come to fall under either item (i) or (ii) of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (5), and having come to fall under either item (i) or (ii) of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (5) prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 75 of the Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 69 of 2014))".

The Minister of Justice is to endeavor to make known the contents of the provisions of Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 and other aspects of the system concerning the submission of materials on Recognition of Refugee Status or recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection, so that materials on Recognition of Refugee Status or recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection are properly submitted upon an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act.

If, on or after the effective date of this Act, an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act is filed by a foreign national without a status of residence who, while in Japan before the effective date of this Act, filed applications under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act two or more times and who, with respect to each of those applications, has come to fall under either item (i) or (ii) of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (5) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2, or under either item (i) or (ii) of Article 61-2-4, paragraph (5) of the Immigration Control Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 75 of the Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 69 of 2014), the Minister of Justice is to inform that foreign national without a status of residence of the contents of the provisions of Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 and other necessary matters, so that materials showing reasonable grounds for granting Recognition of Refugee Status or recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection are properly submitted.

With regard to the validity period of a refugee travel document issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 61-2-12, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the investigation of facts for making a disposition concerning permission pertaining to status of residence, to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, for a foreign national without a status of residence who filed an application under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Immigration Control Act before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the Effective Date and to acts committed on or after the Effective Date in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of the provisions of the proviso to Article 50, paragraph (1), the proviso to Article 61-2-5, paragraph (1), and Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 during the period until the day before the effective date of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) (hereinafter referred to as the "effective date of the 2022 Penal Code amendments" in this Article), the term "imprisonment" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work or imprisonment without work".

With regard to the application of the provisions of the proviso to Article 50, paragraph (1), the proviso to Article 61-2-5, paragraph (1), and Article 61-2-9, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 on or after the effective date of the 2022 Penal Code amendments to a person sentenced to imprisonment with work prescribed in Article 12 of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907; hereinafter referred to as the "former Penal Code" in this paragraph) prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 2 of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "imprisonment with work") or imprisonment without work prescribed in Article 13 of the former Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as "imprisonment without work"), a person sentenced to life imprisonment with work or life imprisonment without work is deemed to be a person sentenced to life imprisonment, and a person sentenced to imprisonment with work for a fixed term or imprisonment without work for a fixed term is deemed to be a person sentenced to imprisonment for a fixed term of the same length, respectively.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 71-6 of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 during the period until the day before the effective date of the 2022 Penal Code amendments, the term "imprisonment" in the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "imprisonment with work". The same applies to the application of the provisions of the same Article on or after the effective date of the 2022 Penal Code amendments to acts committed before the effective date of the 2022 Penal Code amendments.

The provisions of Article 55-2, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 do not apply until the day before the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (vi) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. (Act No. 28 of 2023; hereinafter referred to as the "Code of Criminal Procedure Amendment Act") come into effect.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 55-72, paragraph (2) and Article 55-73, paragraph (3) of the Immigration Control Act as amended by Article 2 during the period until the day before the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Basic Act on the Formation of a Digital Society, etc. to Promote Regulatory Reform for the Formation of a Digital Society (Act No. 63 of 2023; hereinafter referred to as the "Digital Regulatory Reform Promotion Act") come into effect, the term "Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "posting it and publishing a notice to that effect at least once in the Official Gazette or other official bulletin or in a newspaper", and the term "Ministry of Justice Order" with "posting it".

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.