# 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 / Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)

- Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 (Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 平成二十一年法務省令第五十一号
- English title "Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4219-51/art-1`
- Text in force since: 2017-11-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4219-51/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4219-51/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4219-51/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4219-51/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4219-51/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この省令は、出入国管理及び難民認定法及び日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法の一部を改正する等の法律（平成二十一年法律第七十九号）附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定の施行の日（平成二十二年七月一日）から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4219-51/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4219-51/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4219-51/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Ministerial Order comes into effect as of the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, and Other Matters (Act No. 79 of 2009) come into effect (July 1, 2010).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 — the text in force from 2017-11-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421M60000010051/20171101_429M60000010019), retrieved 2026-10-20
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5032/tb), retrieved 2026-10-20
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance-20261020T081651-001, translated 2026-10-20
- This site's parser, version 210 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-20
