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Article 23

第二十三条

The name of a person for whom a new family register will be created or who will join another family register pursuant to the provisions of Articles 16 through 21 is removed from their previous family register. The same applies to a person who has died, a person subject to a declaration of presumed death, or a person who has lost Japanese nationality.

第十六条乃至第二十一条の規定によつて、新戸籍を編製され、又は他の戸籍に入る者は、従前の戸籍から除籍される。死亡し、失踪の宣告を受け、又は国籍を失つた者も、同様である。

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