# 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 — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) — address `suppl-4249-37/art-9` - 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-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4249-37/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条 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 **第一項** 新変更基準省令第一条第十四号並びに第二条第十五号、第二十号及び第二十五号の規定の適用については、施行日前にこの省令による改正前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第一条第十四号並びに第二条第十五号、第二十号及び第二十五号に規定する改善措置を講ずるよう地方入国管理局から指導を受けた場合は、それぞれ新変更基準省令第一条第十四号並びに第二条第十五号、第二十号及び第二十五号に規定する改善措置を講ずるよう地方入国管理局から指導を受けた場合とみなす。 suppl-4249-37/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/suppl-4249-37/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/suppl-4249-37/art-9/par-1 For the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 1, item (xiv) and Article 2, items (xv), (xx) and (xxv) of the New Ministerial Order for Change of Status Criteria, the case where, before the effective date, a person received guidance from the regional immigration bureau to take the improvement measures prescribed in Article 1, item (xiv) and Article 2, items (xv), (xx) and (xxv) of the Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act prior to its amendment by this Ministerial Order is deemed, respectively, to be the case where a person received guidance from the regional immigration bureau to take the improvement measures prescribed in Article 1, item (xiv) and Article 2, items (xv), (xx) and (xxv) of the New Ministerial Order for Change of Status Criteria. machine translation, not official ## 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 附則第八条第一項 — 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 --- ## 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