# 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 — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-4249-37/art-8` - 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-4249-37/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4249-37/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-4249-37/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4249-37/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4249-37/art-8 **第一項** 法第二十条第二項の規定による技能実習の在留資格への変更の申請に係る法第二十条の二第二項の基準については、第三条の規定による改正後の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（次条において「新変更基準省令」という。）第一条第十三号、第十四号及び第十六号並びに第二条第十四号、第十五号、第十七号、第十九号、第二十号、第二十二号、第二十四号、第二十五号及び第二十七号の規定は、これらの規定に定める基準省令の表の法別表第一の二の表の技能実習の項の下欄第一号イに掲げる活動の項下欄第十八号の表ル、法別表第一の二の表の技能実習の項の下欄第一号ロに掲げる活動の項下欄第十六号の表ヲ若しくはタ又は法別表第一の四の表の研修の項下欄第十号の表ヌにおいて、地方入国管理局又は監理団体に報告することとされる不正行為が、施行日前に行われたものであるときは、当該報告を怠る不正行為については適用しない。 suppl-4249-37/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4249-37/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4249-37/art-8/par-1 With regard to the criteria under Article 20-2, paragraph (2) of the Act pertaining to an application for a change to the status of residence of "Technical Intern Training" under the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Act, the provisions of Article 1, items (xiii), (xiv) and (xvi) and Article 2, items (xiv), (xv), (xvii), (xix), (xx), (xxii), (xxiv), (xxv) and (xxvii) of the Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 (referred to as the "New Ministerial Order for Change of Status Criteria" in the following Article) do not apply to a fraudulent act of neglecting to make the relevant report, where the fraudulent act that is to be reported to the regional immigration bureau or the supervising organization in sub-item (k) of item (xviii) of the right-hand column in the row for the activities listed in item (i), sub-item (a) of the right-hand column in the row for "Technical Intern Training" in the Appended Table I (2) of the Act, in sub-item (l) or (p) of item (xvi) of the right-hand column in the row for the activities listed in item (i), sub-item (b) of the right-hand column in the row for "Technical Intern Training" in the Appended Table I (2) of the Act, or in sub-item (j) of item (x) of the right-hand column in the row for "Trainee" in the Appended Table I (4) of the Act, in the table of the Ministerial Order for criteria provided for in those provisions, was committed before the effective date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4249-37/art-8/par-1: 次条 → 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 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-4249-37/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4249-37/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4249-37/art-9 ## 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第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 附則第七条第一項（第三条の規定による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の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4249-37/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4249-37/art-7/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