Registration affairs are administered by the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau or the branch bureau thereof or the branch office of any of those bureaus (hereinafter simply referred to as the "registry office") which has jurisdiction over the location of the real property in question.
登記の事務は、不動産の所在地を管轄する法務局若しくは地方法務局若しくはこれらの支局又はこれらの出張所（以下単に「登記所」という。）がつかさどる。
Where real property extends over the jurisdictional districts of two or more registry offices, the Minister of Justice or the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau designates the registry office that should take charge of administering the registration affairs relating to the real property, as provided for by Ministry of Justice Order.
In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, an application for a registration may be filed with any one of those two or more registry offices, until one of them is designated under the same paragraph.