# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第三十一条の四 (Article 31-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-31-4. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法 (Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 昭和二十六年政令第三百十九号 - English title "Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — 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. - Issued as a Cabinet Order and given the force of an Act, which is why its number says 政令: Some rules made during the Allied occupation were issued as Cabinet Orders, as orders implementing Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and an Act passed in 1952 gave them the force of an Act. They keep the Cabinet Order number they were issued under, which is why e-Gov lists the law as an Act while its number says 政令 (Cabinet Order). The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法) is one: it was promulgated in 1951 as the Immigration Control Order (出入国管理令), Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951, has had the force of an Act under Article 4 of Act No. 126 of 1952, took its present title on 1 January 1982, and every amendment on e-Gov's record of it was made by an Act. - Provision: 第三十一条の四 (Article 31-4)（電磁的記録に係る記録媒体の差押えに代わる処分） — address `art-31-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-31-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-31-4 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条の四（電磁的記録に係る記録媒体の差押えに代わる処分） — Disposition in Lieu of Seizure of Recording Media Relating to Electronic or Magnetic Records caption: machine translation, not official art-31-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-31-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-31-4 **第一項** 差し押さえるべき物件が電磁的記録に係る記録媒体であるときは、入国警備官は、その差押えに代えて次に掲げる処分をすることができる。 art-31-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-31-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-31-4/par-1 If the object to be seized is a recording medium relating to electronic or magnetic records, the immigration control officer may carry out the following dispositions in lieu of the seizure: machine translation, not official **一** 差し押さえるべき記録媒体に記録された電磁的記録を他の記録媒体に複写し、印刷し、又は移転した上、当該他の記録媒体を差し押さえること。 art-31-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-31-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-31-4/par-1/item-1 copying, printing out or transferring the electronic or magnetic records recorded on the recording medium to be seized onto another recording medium, and then seizing that other recording medium; or machine translation, not official **二** 差押えを受ける者に差し押さえるべき記録媒体に記録された電磁的記録を他の記録媒体に複写させ、印刷させ、又は移転させた上、当該他の記録媒体を差し押さえること。 art-31-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-31-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-31-4/par-1/item-2 having the person subject to the seizure copy, print out or transfer the electronic or magnetic records recorded on the recording medium to be seized onto another recording medium, and then seizing that other recording medium. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条第一項（領置目録等の作成等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-37/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の四第一項（移転された電磁的記録に係る記録媒体の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-37-4/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 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326CO0000000319/20261001_508AC0000000032), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3624/tb), retrieved 2026-09-13 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T134912-005, translated 2026-09-13 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T134912-006, translated 2026-09-13 - This site's parser, version 223 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05