# 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 — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（経過規定） — address `suppl-4219-51/art-2`
- 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-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4219-51/art-2
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### 第二条（経過規定） — Interim Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4219-51/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4219-51/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4219-51/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この省令の定める基準は、申請人がこの省令の施行前に法第二十条第二項の申請を行った場合であって、法第六条第二項又は第七条の二第一項の申請の際提出した研修計画上の研修の終期がこの省令の施行前であるときに限り、この省令の施行後においても、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4219-51/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4219-51/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4219-51/art-2/par-1</sup>
The criteria provided for by this Ministerial Order do not apply, even after this Ministerial Order comes into effect, only in the case where the applicant filed an application under Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Act before this Ministerial Order came into effect and the end of the training period in the training plan submitted at the time of the application under Article 6, paragraph (2) or Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the Act is before this Ministerial Order comes into effect.
<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