# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4281-88/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（在留資格認定証明書に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4281-88/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4281-88/art-4 - e-Gov law ID: 326CO0000000319 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条（在留資格認定証明書に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Certificates of Eligibility caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4281-88/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4281-88/art-4 **第一項** 法務大臣は、附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の日（以下「第二号施行日」という。）以後に本邦に上陸しようとする外国人であって新法別表第一の二の表の介護の項の下欄に掲げる活動を行おうとするものから、あらかじめ申請があったときは、法務省令で定めるところにより、第二号施行日前に、当該外国人に対し、同表の介護の在留資格に係る在留資格認定証明書を交付することができる。 suppl-4281-88/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4281-88/art-4/par-1 Upon receiving an advance application from a foreign national who seeks to land in Japan on or after the day on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "item (ii) Effective Date") and who seeks to engage in the activities set forth in the right-hand column under "Nursing Care" in Appended Table I (2) of the New Act, the Minister of Justice may, pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order, issue to the foreign national, before the item (ii) Effective Date, a certificate of eligibility pertaining to the status of residence of "Nursing Care" in the same Table. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4281-88/art-4/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4281-88/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4281-88/art-1/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4281-88/art-4/par-1: 新法別表第一の二 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/appdx-1 ## 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4281-88/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 附則第三条第二項（退去強制に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4281-88/art-3/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 附則第六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-4281-88/art-6/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-20260913T134912-046, translated 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