# 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 / Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 (Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 平成二十六年法務省令第三十七号 - English title "Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4269-37/art-4` - Text in force since: 2024-06-10 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4269-37/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/suppl-4269-37/art-4 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4269-37/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4269-37/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/suppl-4269-37/art-4 **第一項** 改正法附則第四条の規定による在留資格認定証明書（法第七条の二に規定する証明書をいう。）の交付については、この省令の施行の日前においても、第一条の規定を適用する。 suppl-4269-37/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4269-37/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/suppl-4269-37/art-4/par-1 With regard to the issuance of a certificate of eligibility for status of residence (meaning the certificate prescribed in Article 7-2 of the Act) pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act, the provisions of Article 1 apply even before the date of enforcement of this Ministerial Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4269-37/art-4/par-1: 法第七条の二 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七条の二 (Article 7-2), art-7-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-7-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-7-2 - suppl-4269-37/art-4/par-1: 第一条 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/art-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4269-37/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426M60000010037/suppl-4269-37/art-1/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 — the text in force from 2024-06-10 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/426M60000010037/20240610_506M60000010037), retrieved 2026-10-20 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ministerial Order for Defining the Criteria in the Right-Hand Column of the Entry for Highly Skilled Professional in the Appended Table I(2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3751/tb), retrieved 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch highly-skilled-professional-criteria-ordinance-20261020T081635-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の高度専門職の項の下欄の基準を定める省令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-20