# 国籍法施行規則 / Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — 制定文（二） (Enacting Statement 2)

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- 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: 制定文（二） (Enacting Statement 2) — address `enact-2`
- Text in force since: 2016-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/enact-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/enact-2
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**制定文（二）**  国籍法施行規則
<sup>enact-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/enact-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/enact-2</sup>
Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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 — Machine translation, 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