The mayor of a municipality or the head of a legal affairs bureau or district legal affairs bureau may provide information on the particulars entered in a family register or removed family register or information on the particulars entered in a written notification or any other document received by the mayor of a municipality, according to the standards and procedures specified by Ministry of Justice Order, for the production of statistics or the academic research that is found to be conducive to the public interest, if the information in question needs to be used in order to produce the statistics or achieve the academic research, to the extent of that necessity.
市町村長又は法務局若しくは地方法務局の長は、法務省令で定める基準及び手続により、統計の作成又は学術研究であつて、公益性が高く、かつ、その目的を達成するために戸籍若しくは除かれた戸籍に記載した事項又は届書その他市町村長の受理した書類に記載した事項に係る情報を利用する必要があると認められるもののため、その必要の限度において、これらの情報を提供することができる。