# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第四十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 40) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-5071-39/art-40. 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: 第四十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 40)（電磁的記録提供命令等における留意事項） — address `suppl-5071-39/art-40` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-5071-39/art-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-5071-39/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条（電磁的記録提供命令等における留意事項） — Points to Note in Orders to Provide Electronic or Magnetic Records, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-39/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-5071-39/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-5071-39/art-40 **第一項** 電磁的記録提供命令（第一条の規定による改正後の刑事訴訟法第百二条の二第一項に規定する電磁的記録提供命令をいう。）により電磁的記録を提供させ、又は電磁的記録に係る記録媒体を押収するに当たっては、デジタル社会において個人情報の保護がより重要となっていることに鑑み、できる限り被告事件又は被疑事件と関連性を有しない個人情報を取得することとならないよう、特に留意しなければならない。 suppl-5071-39/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-5071-39/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-5071-39/art-40/par-1 In having electronic or magnetic records provided under an order to provide electronic or magnetic records (meaning an order to provide electronic or magnetic records prescribed in Article 102-2, paragraph (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as amended by the provisions of Article 1), or in seizing recording media relating to electronic or magnetic records, particular care must be taken, in light of the fact that the protection of personal information has become more important in a digital society, to avoid, to the extent possible, acquiring personal information that has no relevance to the case of the accused or the case of the suspect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-39/art-40/par-1: 刑事訴訟法第百二条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第百二条の二第一項 (Article 102-2, paragraph (1)), art-102-2/par-1 — not held in this collection ## 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三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/suppl-5071-39/art-1/par-1/item-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 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T133617-054, 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