# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の二十 (Article 55-20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-20. 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: 第五十五条の二十 (Article 55-20)（起居動作の時間帯） — address `art-55-20` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-20 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の二十（起居動作の時間帯） — Hours for Daily Activities caption: machine translation, not official art-55-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-20 **第一項** 入国者収容所長等は、法務省令で定めるところにより、食事、就寝その他の起居動作をすべき時間帯を定め、これを被収容者に告知するものとする。 art-55-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-20/par-1 The director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to set the hours during which meals, sleep and other daily activities are to take place, and notify detainees thereof, pursuant to Ministry of Justice Order. 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施行規則 第五十条の十第一項（起居動作の時間帯） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-10/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の十第二項（起居動作の時間帯） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-10/par-2 --- ## 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-20260913T134912-016, 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