Supplementary Provisions, Article 8Transitional Measures Concerning Plans for Departure

①An immigration control officer must, promptly after this Act comes into effect, prepare a plan for departure, in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2, for a person who is actually detained pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (5) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect.

②An immigration control officer must endeavor, as promptly as possible after this Act comes into effect, to prepare a plan for departure, in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2, for a person who is actually provisionally released pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2 at the time this Act comes into effect (limited to a person for whom a written deportation order has been issued).

③If, after this Act comes into effect, a person prescribed in the preceding paragraph is detained pursuant to the provisions of Article 55, paragraph (4) or (5) of the Immigration Control Act Prior to Amendment by Article 2, to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the following Article, and no plan for departure has been prepared for that person pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an immigration control officer must, promptly after the commencement of that detention, prepare a plan for departure in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2.

④If an immigration control officer has prepared a plan for departure pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs for a person prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2), and the period during which that person has been detained upon the issuance of a written deportation order, counted from the Effective Date (for a person prescribed in paragraph (2), the date of commencement of that detention), has reached 3 months continuously, the immigration control officer must promptly submit to the supervising immigration inspector the plan for departure prepared pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs and report on its progress, in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2. In this case, the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraphs (3) through (5) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply mutatis mutandis.

⑤If the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph continues beyond 3 months, an immigration control officer must, each time the period so continuing reaches a further 3 months, promptly report to the supervising immigration inspector on the progress of the plan for departure prepared pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), in conformity with the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraph (6) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2. In this case, the provisions of Article 52-8, paragraphs (3) through (5) of the Immigration Control Act as Amended by Article 2 apply mutatis mutandis.