# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4211-79/art-21. 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) — address `suppl-4211-79/art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4211-79/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4211-79/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条 suppl-4211-79/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4211-79/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4211-79/art-21 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に新入管法第二十二条の四第一項第七号に規定する日本人の配偶者等の在留資格又は永住者の配偶者等の在留資格をもって在留する者で、その配偶者の身分を有する者としての活動を継続して六月以上行わないで在留しているものについての同号の規定の適用については、同号中「継続して六月」とあるのは、「出入国管理及び難民認定法及び日本国との平和条約に基づき日本の国籍を離脱した者等の出入国管理に関する特例法の一部を改正する等の法律（平成二十一年法律第七十九号）の施行後継続して六月」とする。 suppl-4211-79/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4211-79/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-4211-79/art-21/par-1 With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 22-4, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the New Immigration Control Act to a person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is residing with the status of residence of "Spouse or Child of Japanese National" or the status of residence of "Spouse or Child of Permanent Resident" provided for in the same item and who is residing without continuously engaging in activities as a person with the status of a spouse for six months or more, the phrase "continuously for six months" in the same item is deemed to be replaced with "continuously for six months after the Act Partially Amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act and the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, and Other Matters (Act No. 79 of 2009) comes into effect". machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20260918T154025-001, 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