# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第三十七条の三 (Article 37-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3. 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: 第三十七条の三 (Article 37-3)（領置物件等の還付等） — address `art-37-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3 - e-Gov law ID: 326CO0000000319 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十七条の三（領置物件等の還付等） — Return, etc. of Retained Articles, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-37-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3 **第一項** 入国警備官又は入国審査官は、領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について留置の必要がなくなつたときは、その返還を受けるべき者にこれを還付しなければならない。 art-37-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3/par-1 If there is no longer any need to hold retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order, the immigration control officer or immigration inspector must return them to the person who is to receive their return. machine translation, not official **第二項** 地方出入国在留管理局長は、前項の領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について、その返還を受けるべき者の住所若しくは居所がわからないため、又はその他の事由によりこれを還付することができない場合においては、その旨を政令で定める方法によつて公告しなければならない。 art-37-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3/par-2 If the director of the regional immigration services bureau is unable to return the retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order set forth in the preceding paragraph because the domicile or residence of the person who is to receive their return is unknown, or for any other reason, the director must give public notice to that effect by the method specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の公告に係る領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について公告の日から六月を経過しても還付の請求がないときは、これらの物件は、国庫に帰属する。 art-37-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3/par-3 If no request for the return of the retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order pertaining to the public notice set forth in the preceding paragraph is made even after 6 months have passed from the date of the public notice, these objects belong to the National Treasury. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-37-3/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の三第一項 (Article 37-3, paragraph (1)), art-37-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3/par-1 - art-37-3/par-3: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の三第二項 (Article 37-3, paragraph (2)), art-37-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の三第二項（領置物件等の還付等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の三第三項（領置物件等の還付等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-3/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の四第二項（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-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の四第三項（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-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十二条第一項（還付等の公告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 410CO0000000178) - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十二条第一項第一号（還付等の公告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-1/item-1 (e-Gov law ID 410CO0000000178) - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十二条第二項（還付等の公告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 410CO0000000178) - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十二条第二項第一号（還付等の公告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-2/item-1 (e-Gov law ID 410CO0000000178) --- ## 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-20260913T134912-006, translated 2026-09-13 - This site's parser, version 225 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05