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Article 19-2Public Notice of Return of Passports

第十九条の二(返納に係る公告)

If the Minister for Foreign Affairs or a consular officer issues a notice ordering the return of an ordinary passport pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article ( referred to as "notice" below in this Article), and the whereabouts of the holder of the ordinary passport is unknown or the document that should be sent cannot be sent for other unavoidable circumstances, the Minister for Foreign Affairs may publish the content of the notice in Official Gazette in lieu of issuing the notice.

外務大臣又は領事官は、前条第四項の規定により一般旅券の返納を命ずる旨の通知(以下この条において「通知」という。)をする場合において、当該一般旅券の名義人の所在が知れないときその他通知をすべき書面を送付することができないやむを得ない事情があるときは、通知をすべき内容を外務大臣が官報に掲載することをもつて通知に代えることができる。

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the notice is deemed to have reached the holder of the ordinary passport on the day on which twenty days have passed commencing from the day on which the Minister for Foreign Affairs published the content of the notice in an Official Gazette.

前項の場合においては、外務大臣が通知をすべき内容を官報に掲載した日から起算して二十日を経過した日に、通知が当該一般旅券の名義人に到達したものとみなす。

In the case referred to in paragraph (1), the Minister for Foreign Affairs is to notify the consular officer in the region where the Minister finds it necessary of the fact that the content of the notice has been published in an Official Gazette without delay, and the consular officer who has been notified is to post the content of the notification in an appropriate place of the consulate to which they belong.

第一項の場合においては、外務大臣は、遅滞なく、必要と認める地域に係る領事官に対し、通知をすべき内容を官報に掲載した旨を通報するものとし、当該通報を受けた領事官は、その所属する領事館の適当な場所に当該通報の内容を掲示するものとする。

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