# 国籍法施行規則 / Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — 第三条 (Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-3. 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: 国籍法施行規則 (Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act), 昭和五十九年法務省令第三十九号 - English title "Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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. - Provision: 第三条 (Article 3)（国籍離脱の届出） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2016-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（国籍離脱の届出） — (Notification of Renouncement of Nationality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Notification of renouncement of nationality)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-3 **第一項** 国籍離脱の届出については、第一条第一項及び第三項の規定を準用する。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-3/par-1 The provisions of Article 1, paragraphs (1) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to a notification of renouncement of nationality. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 届書には、次の事項を記載して届出をする者が署名し、国籍離脱の条件を備えていることを証するに足りる書類を添付しなければならない。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-3/par-2 A written notification must state the following matters and be signed by the person who makes the notification, and a document sufficiently proving that the person who intends to renounce nationality meets the conditions for renouncement of nationality must be attached thereto: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A written notification shall must the following matters and be signed by the person who makes the notification, and a document sufficiently proving that the person who intends to renounce nationality meets the conditions for renouncement of nationality must be attached thereto:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb **一** 国籍の離脱をしようとする者の氏名、出生の年月日、住所及び戸籍の表示 art-3/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-3/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-3/par-2/item-1 the name, date of birth, and domicile of the person who intends to renounce nationality, and the indication of the person's family register; and Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the name, date of birth, and domicile of the person who intends to renounce nationality, and the indication of the person's register; and" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb **二** 現に有する外国の国籍 art-3/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-3/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-3/par-2/item-2 the person's current foreign nationality. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the person's current nationality." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb --- ## Cites - art-3/par-1: 第一条第一項 → 国籍法施行規則 第一条第一項 (Article 1, paragraph (1)), art-1/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-1/par-1 - art-3/par-1: 第三項 → 国籍法施行規則 第一条第三項 (Article 1, paragraph (3)), art-1/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-1/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-1/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国籍法施行規則 — the text in force from 2016-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/359M50000010039/20160401_428M60000010009), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act (国籍法施行規則), Article 3 — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act (国籍法施行規則), Article 3, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act (国籍法施行規則), Article 3, paragraph (2), item (i) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act (国籍法施行規則), Article 3, paragraph (2), item (ii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 222 — 国籍法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02