# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-4181-43/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-4181-43/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-5 **第一項** 附則第一条第一号に掲げる規定の施行前にした旧特区法第二十五条第五項各号（旧特区法第二十六条第三項において準用する場合を含む。）に掲げる外国人についての在留資格に係る旧法第二十条第二項、第二十一条第二項又は第二十二条の二第二項の規定による許可の申請は、次の各号に掲げる活動を行おうとする者としての旧在留資格の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める活動を行おうとする者としての新在留資格に係る新法第二十条第二項、第二十一条第二項又は第二十二条の二第二項の規定による許可の申請とみなす。 suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1 An application for permission pursuant to the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (2), Article 21, paragraph (2) or Article 22-2, paragraph (2) of the Former Act concerning the status of residence of a foreign national set forth in any of the items of Article 25, paragraph (5) of the Former Special Districts Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 26, paragraph (3) of the Former Special Districts Act), filed before the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, is, in accordance with the category of the former status of residence as a person seeking to engage in the activities set forth in the following items, deemed to be an application for permission pursuant to the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (2), Article 21, paragraph (2) or Article 22-2, paragraph (2) of the New Act concerning the new status of residence as a person seeking to engage in the activities specified in the respective items: machine translation, not official **一** 旧特定研究等活動　新特定研究等活動 suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-1 former specified research activities, etc.: new specified research activities, etc.; machine translation, not official **二** 旧特定情報処理活動　新特定情報処理活動 suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-2 former specified information processing activities: new specified information processing activities; machine translation, not official **三** 旧特定研究等家族滞在活動　新特定研究等家族滞在活動 suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-3 former specified research, etc. family stay activities: new specified research, etc. family stay activities; machine translation, not official **四** 旧特定情報処理家族滞在活動　新特定情報処理家族滞在活動 suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1/item-4 former specified information processing family stay activities: new specified information processing family stay activities. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-4181-43/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-1/par-1/item-1 - suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1: 新法第二十条第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十条第二項 (Article 20, paragraph (2)), art-20/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-20/par-2 - suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1: 第二十一条第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十一条第二項 (Article 21, paragraph (2)), art-21/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-21/par-2 - suppl-4181-43/art-5/par-1: 第二十二条の二第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十二条の二第二項 (Article 22-2, paragraph (2)), art-22-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-22-2/par-2 ## 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4181-43/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4181-43/art-1/par-1/item-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-20260913T134912-040, translated 2026-09-13 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260918T154023-001, translated 2026-09-18 - 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