①No person other than the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership may file an application for registration of a parcel subdivision or parcel consolidation.

②Even in the absence of the application referred to in the preceding paragraph, if part of a parcel of land has come to fall within a different land category or a different numbered district (including the smallest district called "aza" which is not a numbered district; the same applies in Article 41, item (ii)), a registrar must make a registration of a subdivision of such parcel of land by their own authority.

③Even in the absence of the application referred to in paragraph (1), if a registrar finds it necessary in order to prepare a map referred to in Article 14, paragraph (1), they may make a registration of a parcel subdivision or parcel consolidation, by their own authority, only where no objection is made by the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership prescribed in paragraph (1).