# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の三十七 (Article 55-37)
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- 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
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- 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: 第五十五条の三十七 (Article 55-37)（保健衛生及び医療の原則） — address `art-55-37`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第五十五条の三十七（保健衛生及び医療の原則） — Principles of Health, Sanitation and Medical Care
caption: machine translation, not official
art-55-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-37
**第一項** 入国者収容所等においては、被収容者の心身の状況を把握することに努め、被収容者の健康及び入国者収容所等内の衛生を保持するため、社会一般の保健衛生及び医療の水準に照らし適切な保健衛生上及び医療上の措置を講ずるものとする。
art-55-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-37/par-1
At an immigration detention center, etc., efforts are to be made to ascertain the physical and mental condition of detainees, and appropriate health, sanitation and medical measures in light of the standards of health, sanitation and medical care in society in general are to be taken in order to maintain the health of detainees and sanitation within the immigration detention center, etc.
machine translation, not official
## 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十七第一項の規定による医師等職員の兼業等に関する規則 第二条第一項第一号（部外診療の承認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-medical-staff-side-work-rules/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/506M60000011002/art-2/par-1/item-1
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## 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-20260913T134912-019, 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