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Article 14Notice of Non-Issuance of Ordinary Passports

第十四条(一般旅券の発給をしない場合等の通知)

When the Minister for Foreign Affairs or a consular officer has decided not to issue an ordinary passport or not to add destinations to an ordinary passport based on the provisions of the preceding Article, or has decided to state individually specified destinations or to make the validity period shorter than ten years (shorter than five years when a person who applies for issuance of an ordinary passport is under 18 years of age, or shorter than the remaining validity period of the current passport when a person applies for issuance of a passport with the same remaining validity period) based on the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (2) or (5) (excluding the case when an ordinary passport is issued for a case falling under the provisions of the proviso to Article 4-2), the Minister or a consular officer must promptly notify the person who has applied for issuance of an ordinary passport or the addition of destinations of that fact using a document to which the reason is attached.

外務大臣又は領事官は、前条の規定に基づき一般旅券の発給若しくは渡航先の追加をしないと決定したとき、又は第五条第二項若しくは第五項の規定に基づいて渡航先を個別に特定して記載し、若しくは有効期間を十年(一般旅券の発給の申請をする者が、十八歳未満の者であるときは五年、残存有効期間同一旅券の発給の申請をする者であるときはその現有旅券の残存有効期間)未満とすると決定したとき(第四条の二ただし書の規定に該当する場合において一般旅券を発行するときを除く。)は、速やかに、理由を付した書面をもつて一般旅券の発給又は渡航先の追加を申請した者にその旨を通知しなければならない。

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