# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の三十一 (Article 55-31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-31. 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: 第五十五条の三十一 (Article 55-31)（保管私物等の交付） — address `art-55-31` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-31 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の三十一（保管私物等の交付） — Delivery of Personal Belongings in Possession, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-55-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-31 **第一項** 入国者収容所長等は、被収容者が、保管私物、自ら保管する現金又は領置されている物品（第五十五条の六十五に規定する文書図画に該当するものを除く。）について、他の者への交付（信書の発信に該当するものを除く。）を申請した場合には、その交付（その相手方が親族であるものを除く。）により入国者収容所等の規律及び秩序を害するおそれがある場合を除き、これを許すものとする。 art-55-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-31/par-1 If a detainee applies to deliver personal effects kept by the detainee, cash that the detainee keeps, or goods held in custody (excluding those that fall under the documents and drawings prescribed in Article 55-65) to another person (excluding delivery that constitutes the sending of letters), the director of an immigration detention center, etc. is to permit it, except where the delivery (excluding delivery to a relative) is likely to harm the discipline and order of the immigration detention center, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-31/par-1: 第五十五条の六十五 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十五 (Article 55-65), art-55-65 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-65 ## 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 第五十五条の六十八第一項第四号（審査の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-68/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-68/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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-20260913T134912-018, translated 2026-09-13 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260918T121515-002, translated 2026-09-18 - 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