# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の四十六 (Article 55-46) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-46. 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: 第五十五条の四十六 (Article 55-46)（養護のための措置等） — address `art-55-46` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-46 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の四十六（養護のための措置等） — Measures for Care, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-55-46 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-46 **第一項** 入国者収容所長等は、老人、妊産婦、身体虚弱者その他の養護を必要とする被収容者について、その養護を必要とする事情に応じ、第五十五条の四十二の規定による医療上の措置に準じた措置をとるものとする。 art-55-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-46/par-1 For elderly persons, expectant and nursing mothers, physically frail persons and other detainees who require care, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to take measures equivalent to the medical measures pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-42, according to the circumstances requiring such care. machine translation, not official **第二項** 入国者収容所長等は、被収容者が出産するときは、やむを得ない場合を除き、入国者収容所等の外の病院、診療所又は助産所に入院させるものとする。 art-55-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-46/par-2 When a detainee is to give birth, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. is to have the detainee admitted to a hospital, clinic or midwifery home outside the immigration detention center, etc., except when unavoidable. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-46/par-1: 第五十五条の四十二 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の四十二 (Article 55-42), art-55-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-42 --- ## 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 225 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05