# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第七十条の二 (Article 70-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2. 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: 第七十条の二 (Article 70-2) — address `art-70-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十条の二 art-70-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2 **第一項** 前条第一項第一号から第二号の二まで、第五号若しくは第七号又は同条第二項の罪を犯した者については、次の各号に該当することの証明があつたときは、その刑を免除する。ただし、当該罪に係る行為をした後遅滞なく入国審査官の面前において、次の各号に該当することの申出をした場合に限る。 art-70-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2/par-1 A person who commits any of the offenses set forth in paragraph (1), items (i) through (ii)-2, item (v) or (vii) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article may be exempt from the penalty if it is proved that the person corresponds to the following items; provided however, that this is to be limited to cases in which, after having committed the act pertaining to the crime, a proposal was made without delay in the presence of an immigration inspector that the person falls under the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 難民であること。 art-70-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2/par-1/item-1 the person is a refugee; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** その者の生命、身体又は身体の自由が難民条約第一条Ａ（２）に規定する理由によつて害されるおそれのあつた領域から、直接本邦に入つたものであること。 art-70-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2/par-1/item-2 the person enters Japan directly from a territory in which their life, body or physical freedom was likely to be persecuted on the grounds prescribed in Article 1, paragraph A-(2) of the Refugee Convention; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前号のおそれがあることにより当該罪に係る行為をしたものであること。 art-70-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2/par-1/item-3 the act pertaining to the crime was committed because there was a risk that the situation prescribed in the preceding item will occur. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-70-2/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第二号の二まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条第一項第一号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-70/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70/par-1/item-1 - art-70-2/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第二号の二まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条第一項第二号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-70/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70/par-1/item-2 - art-70-2/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第二号の二まで → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条第一項第二号の二 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (ii-2)), art-70/par-1/item-2-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70/par-1/item-2-2 - art-70-2/par-1: 第五号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条第一項第五号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-70/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70/par-1/item-5 - art-70-2/par-1: 第七号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条第一項第七号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-70/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70/par-1/item-7 - art-70-2/par-1: 同条第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条第二項 (Article 70, paragraph (2)), art-70/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70/par-2 - art-70-2/par-1/item-3: 前号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条の二第一項第二号 (Article 70-2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-70-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十条の二第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-70-2/par-1/item-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 附則第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-3561-86/par-3 --- ## 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 - 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