# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の五十八 (Article 55-58) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-58. 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: 第五十五条の五十八 (Article 55-58)（面会に関する制限） — address `art-55-58` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-58 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-58 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十五条の五十八（面会に関する制限） — Restrictions on Visits caption: machine translation, not official art-55-58 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-58 **第一項** 入国者収容所長等は、被収容者の面会に関し、法務省令で定めるところにより、面会の相手方の人数、面会の場所、日及び時間帯、面会の時間及び回数その他面会の態様について、入国者収容所等の規律及び秩序の維持、衛生の保持その他管理運営上必要な制限をすることができる。 art-55-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-58/par-1 With regard to visits with detainees, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. may, pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order, impose restrictions necessary for maintaining discipline and order, preserving sanitation or otherwise managing and operating the immigration detention center, etc., on the number of visitors, the place, days and hours of visits, the duration and frequency of visits, and other aspects of visits. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により面会の回数について制限をするときは、その回数は、面会の相手方一人ごとに一日につき一回を下回つてはならない。 art-55-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-58/par-2 When restricting the frequency of visits pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the frequency must not be less than once per day for each visitor. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-58/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五十八第一項 (Article 55-58, paragraph (1)), art-55-58/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-58/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五十七第一項第一号イ（面会の一時停止及び終了） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-57/par-1/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-57/par-1/item-1/sub-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五十八第二項（面会に関する制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-55-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-58/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の三十三第一項（面会の相手方の人数の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-33/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の三十六第一項（面会の時間帯の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-36/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の三十七第一項（面会の時間の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-37/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の三十八第一項（面会の回数の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-38/par-1 --- ## 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-20260913T134912-022, 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