①A person, who makes a false statement before a public employee and thereby causes the employee to make a false entry in the registry, family register book or the original of notarized deeds relating to other rights or duties, or creates a false record on the electronic or magnetic record to be used as the original of a notarized deed relating to rights or duties, is punished by imprisonment for 5 years or less or a fine of 500,000 yen or less.

②A person, who makes a false statement before a public employee and thereby causes the employee to make a false entry in a license, permit or passport, or to make a false record in an electronic or magnetic record of a document or drawing or any other electronic or magnetic record that is used as the whole or a part of a license, permit or passport, is punished by imprisonment for 1 year or less or a fine of 200,000 yen or less.

③Any attempt to commit the crimes prescribed under the preceding two paragraphs is punished.