# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第二十条 (Article 20)

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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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（戸籍の附票の記載の修正） — address `art-20`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-20
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-20
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### 第二十条（戸籍の附票の記載の修正） — Amendment of an Entry in a Family Register Supplement
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-20</sup>

**第一項**  市町村長は、戸籍の附票に記載をした事項に変更があつたとき、又は戸籍の附票に誤記若しくは記載漏れがあつたときは、その記載の修正をしなければならない。
<sup>art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-20/par-1</sup>
When there has been a change in the matters entered in a family register supplement, or when there is an erroneous entry or an omission in an entry in a family register supplement, the mayor of the municipality must make an amendment of an entry in that family register supplement.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 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 第三十二条第一項（指定都市の区及び総合区に対するこの政令の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-32/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-20261101T194611-004, translated 2026-11-02
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order-20261101T194611-004, 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
