When a person has newly set an address within the area of a municipality (including a special ward; the same applies hereinafter), or there is any other person who is to be newly recorded in the basic resident register of that municipality, the mayor of the municipality must, except in the case provided for in the following paragraph, prepare a certificate of residence for that person.
市町村長は、新たに市町村（特別区を含む。以下同じ。）の区域内に住所を定めた者その他新たにその市町村の住民基本台帳に記録されるべき者があるときは、次項に定める場合を除き、その者の住民票を作成しなければならない。
When, after preparing a certificate of residence by household unit for a household, there is a person who is to be newly recorded in the basic resident register of that municipality and who has come to belong to that household (including a person who already belonged to that household and has newly become subject to the application of the Act), the mayor of the municipality must make an entry concerning that person in that certificate of residence (or, for a certificate of residence prepared by means of a magnetic disk pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Act, a record; the same applies hereinafter).
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special ward
特別区
A ward (区) of a metropolis (都) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 281, paragraph (1)). Today the only special wards are the 23 wards of Tokyo. A special ward is a basic local government in its own right: it does, in general, the work a city, town or village (市町村) does elsewhere, apart from what the metropolis does across all the wards as one (Article 281-2, paragraph (2)). Where a law or order gives a city (市) work to do, its provisions on that work also apply to a special ward, for the work the ward does (Article 281, paragraph (2), and Article 283, paragraph (2)); a Cabinet Order (政令) can make special rules where they cannot apply as they stand (Article 283, paragraph (3)).
Written by AI using Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 281, 281-2, 283 as a reference.