# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の四十九 (Article 55-49) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49. 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: 第五十五条の四十九 (Article 55-49)（身体の検査等） — address `art-55-49` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の四十九（身体の検査等） — Inspection of the Body, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-55-49 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49 **第一項** 入国警備官は、入国者収容所等の規律及び秩序を維持するため必要がある場合には、被収容者について、その身体、着衣、所持品及び居室を検査し、並びにその所持品を取り上げて一時保管することができる。 art-55-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-1 If it is necessary in order to maintain discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc., an immigration control officer may inspect the body, clothing, personal belongings and room of a detainee, and take away and temporarily keep the detainee's personal belongings. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第五十五条の十九第二項の規定は、前項の規定による女子の被収容者の身体及び着衣の検査について準用する。 art-55-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-2 The provisions of Article 55-19, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the inspection of the body and clothing of a female detainee pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 入国警備官は、入国者収容所等の規律及び秩序を維持するため必要がある場合には、入国者収容所等内において、被収容者以外の者（第五十五条の五十六第一項各号に掲げる者を除く。）の着衣及び携帯品を検査し、並びにその者の携帯品を取り上げて一時保管することができる。 art-55-49/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-3 If it is necessary in order to maintain discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc., an immigration control officer may, within the immigration detention center, etc., inspect the clothing and belongings carried by a person other than a detainee (excluding the persons set forth in the items of Article 55-56, paragraph (1)), and take away and temporarily keep that person's belongings. machine translation, not official **第四項** 前項の検査は、文書図画の内容の検査に及んではならない。 art-55-49/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-4 The inspection set forth in the preceding paragraph must not extend to inspection of the contents of documents or drawings. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-49/par-2: 第五十五条の十九第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の十九第二項 (Article 55-19, paragraph (2)), art-55-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-19/par-2 - art-55-49/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の四十九第一項 (Article 55-49, paragraph (1)), art-55-49/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-1 - art-55-49/par-3: 第五十五条の五十六第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五十六第一項 (Article 55-56, paragraph (1)), art-55-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-56/par-1 - art-55-49/par-4: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の四十九第三項 (Article 55-49, paragraph (3)), art-55-49/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の八第二項（被収容者の分離） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-8/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の四十九第二項（身体の検査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の四十九第四項（身体の検査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-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-20260913T134912-020, 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