# 国籍法施行規則 / Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — 第六条 (Article 6) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-6. 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（国籍の選択の催告） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2016-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（国籍の選択の催告） — (Notice Regarding Selection of Nationality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-6 **第一項** 法第十五条第一項に規定する催告は、これを受けるべき者が外国に在るときは、その国に駐在する領事官を経由してすることができる。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-6/par-1 The notice prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Act may be provided through a consular officer who is stationed in a foreign country if the person who is to receive the notice is in the foreign country. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 法務大臣は、法第十五条第一項又は第二項の規定による催告をしたときは、法務局又は地方法務局の長に、その催告を受けた者の氏名及び戸籍の表示並びに催告が到達した日を、本籍地の市町村長（特別区にあつては区長、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあつては、区長又は総合区長）に対して通知させるものとする。 art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/art-6/par-2 The Minister of Justice, when having provided the notice pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the Act, is to have the Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau or District Legal Affairs Bureau notify the mayor of municipality (in the case of a special ward, the ward mayor, and in the case of the designated cities set forth in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), the ward mayor or the administratively consolidated ward mayor) having jurisdiction over the place of registered domicile of the person who received the notice, with regard to the name of said person and indication of the person's family register, as well as the day on which the notice arrived at the person. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-6/par-1: 法第十五条第一項 → 国籍法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000147/art-15/par-1 - art-6/par-2: 法第十五条第一項 → 国籍法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000147/art-15/par-1 - art-6/par-2: 第二項 → 国籍法 第十五条第二項 (Article 15, paragraph (2)), art-15/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000147/art-15/par-2 - art-6/par-2: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## Sources - 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch nationality-act-enforcement-regulation-20261102T174006-001, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 222 — 国籍法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02