# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第二条 (Article 2)

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- Law: 住民基本台帳法施行令 (Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act), 昭和四十二年政令第二百九十二号
- English title "Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: CabinetOrder — 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（住民票を磁気ディスクをもつて調製する場合の方法及び基準） — address `art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-24
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### 第二条（住民票を磁気ディスクをもつて調製する場合の方法及び基準） — Method and Standards for Preparing a Certificate of Residence by Means of a Magnetic Disk
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  市町村長（特別区の区長を含む。以下同じ。）は、法第六条第三項の規定により住民票を磁気ディスク（これに準ずる方法により一定の事項を確実に記録しておくことができる物を含む。以下同じ。）をもつて調製する場合には、電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。以下同じ。）（電子計算機による方法に準ずる方法により一定の事項を確実に記録しておくことができる機器を含む。以下同じ。）の操作によるものとし、磁気ディスクへの記録、その利用並びに磁気ディスク及びこれに関連する施設又は設備の管理の方法に関する技術的基準については、総務大臣が定める。
<sup>art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-2/par-1</sup>
When the mayor of the municipality (including the head of a special ward; the same applies hereinafter) prepares a certificate of residence by means of a magnetic disk (including any device on which specified matters can be reliably recorded by a method equivalent thereto; the same applies hereinafter) pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Act, this is to be done by operating a computer (including an input/output device; the same applies hereinafter) (including any equipment on which specified matters can be reliably recorded by a method equivalent to a method using a computer; the same applies hereinafter), and the technical standards concerning the methods of recording on a magnetic disk, of using it, and of managing the magnetic disk and the facilities or equipment related thereto are to be specified by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-2/par-1: 法第六条第三項 → 住民基本台帳法 第六条第三項 (Article 6, paragraph (3)), art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6/par-3

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十七条の二第二項（住民票に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-17-2/par-2
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第二十一条第二項（住民票に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-21/par-2
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第二十一条第三項（住民票に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-21/par-3
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第二条第一項（仮住民票の磁気ディスクによる調製） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-4222-253/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-4222-253/art-2/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-02
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 住民基本台帳法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/342CO0000000292/20261024_508CO0000000281), retrieved 2026-11-01
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order-20261101T194611-001, translated 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 219 — 住民基本台帳法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01
