Article 12-4Special Provisions for Issuance of a Copy of a Certificate of Residence Requested by the Person Concerned, etc.
第十二条の四（本人等の請求に係る住民票の写しの交付の特例）
A person recorded in the basic resident register may request the mayor of a municipality other than the mayor of the municipality that maintains the basic resident register in which that person is recorded (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "mayor of the municipality of domicile") to issue a copy of the certificate of residence relating to that person or a person belonging to the same household as that person, from which the matters set out in Article 7, item (v), item (ix) through item (xii), and item (xiv) are omitted. In this case, the person making the request must, as specified by Ministerial Order, present an Individual Number Card or a document specified by Ministerial Order in making the request.
住民基本台帳に記録されている者は、その者が記録されている住民基本台帳を備える市町村の市町村長（以下この条において「住所地市町村長」という。）以外の市町村長に対し、自己又は自己と同一の世帯に属する者に係る住民票の写しで第七条第五号、第九号から第十二号まで及び第十四号に掲げる事項の記載を省略したものの交付を請求することができる。この場合において、当該請求をする者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、個人番号カード又は総務省令で定める書類を提示してこれをしなければならない。
The mayor of the municipality that received the request under the preceding paragraph (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "mayor of the issuing municipality") must notify the matters specified by Cabinet Order to the mayor of the municipality of domicile of the person who made the request under that paragraph.
The mayor of the municipality of domicile who received the notice under the preceding paragraph must notify the matters specified by Cabinet Order to the mayor of the issuing municipality.
The mayor of the issuing municipality who received the notice under the preceding paragraph is to, as specified by Cabinet Order, prepare a copy of the certificate of residence relating to the request under paragraph (1) and issue it to the person who made the request under that paragraph. In this case, the mayor of the issuing municipality may, unless a special request is made, issue the copy of the certificate of residence prescribed in that paragraph from which all or part of the matters set out in Article 7, item (iv), item (viii)-2, and item (xiii) are omitted.
The notice under paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) is to be given, as specified by Ministerial Order, by transmitting it via a telecommunications line from a computer used by the mayor of the issuing municipality or the mayor of the municipality of domicile to a computer used by the other party, the mayor of the municipality of domicile or the mayor of the issuing municipality.
Article 12, paragraph (2) (excluding item (ii)) and paragraph (6) apply mutatis mutandis to a request under paragraph (1). In this case, the term "the mayor of the municipality" in paragraph (6) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the mayor of the issuing municipality prescribed in Article 12-4, paragraph (2)".