# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第三十七条の四 (Article 37-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4. 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: 第三十七条の四 (Article 37-4)（移転された電磁的記録に係る記録媒体の交付等） — address `art-37-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4 - 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. 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. --- ### 第三十七条の四（移転された電磁的記録に係る記録媒体の交付等） — Delivery of Recording Media Pertaining to Transferred Electronic or Magnetic Records caption: machine translation, not official art-37-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4 **第一項** 入国警備官は、第三十一条の四の規定により電磁的記録を移転し、又は移転させた上差し押さえた記録媒体について留置の必要がなくなつた場合において、差押えを受けた者と当該記録媒体の所有者、所持者又は保管者とが異なるときは、当該差押えを受けた者に対し、当該記録媒体を交付し、又は当該電磁的記録の複写を許さなければならない。 art-37-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4/par-1 If it has become unnecessary to retain a recording medium that an immigration control officer seized after transferring electronic or magnetic records or having them transferred pursuant to the provisions of Article 31-4, and the person from whom it was seized and the owner, holder or custodian of the recording medium are different persons, the immigration control officer must deliver the recording medium to the person from whom it was seized, or permit that person to make a copy of the electronic or magnetic records. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前条第二項の規定は、前項の規定による交付又は複写について準用する。 art-37-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the delivery or copying pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項において準用する前条第二項の規定による公告の日から六月を経過しても前項の交付又は複写の請求がないときは、その交付をし、又は複写をさせることを要しない。 art-37-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4/par-3 If no request for the delivery or copying set forth in the preceding paragraph has been made even after 6 months have elapsed from the date of the public notice pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, it is not required to make the delivery or to permit the copying. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-37-4/par-1: 第三十一条の四 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十一条の四 (Article 31-4), art-31-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-31-4 - art-37-4/par-2: 前条第二項 → 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 - art-37-4/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の四第一項 (Article 37-4, paragraph (1)), art-37-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4/par-1 - art-37-4/par-3: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第三十七条の四第二項 (Article 37-4, paragraph (2)), art-37-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-37-4/par-2 - art-37-4/par-3: 前条第二項 → 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 5 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) - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十二条第二項第六号（還付等の公告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-2/item-6 (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-20260913T134912-007, 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