# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第七条 (Article 7)

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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: 第七条 (Article 7)（住民票の記載） — address `art-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-24
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### 第七条（住民票の記載） — Entry in a Certificate of Residence
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  市町村長は、新たに市町村（特別区を含む。以下同じ。）の区域内に住所を定めた者その他新たにその市町村の住民基本台帳に記録されるべき者があるときは、次項に定める場合を除き、その者の住民票を作成しなければならない。
<sup>art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-7/par-1</sup>
When a person has newly set an address within the area of a municipality (including a special ward; the same applies hereinafter), or there is any other person who is to be newly recorded in the basic resident register of that municipality, the mayor of the municipality must, except in the case provided for in the following paragraph, prepare a certificate of residence for that person.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  市町村長は、一の世帯につき世帯を単位とする住民票を作成した後に新たにその市町村の住民基本台帳に記録されるべき者でその世帯に属することとなつたもの（既に当該世帯に属していた者で新たに法の適用を受けることとなつたものを含む。）があるときは、その住民票にその者に関する記載（法第六条第三項の規定により磁気ディスクをもつて調製する住民票にあつては、記録。以下同じ。）をしなければならない。
<sup>art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-7/par-2</sup>
When, after preparing a certificate of residence by household unit for a household, there is a person who is to be newly recorded in the basic resident register of that municipality and who has come to belong to that household (including a person who already belonged to that household and has newly become subject to the application of the Act), the mayor of the municipality must make an entry concerning that person in that certificate of residence (or, for a certificate of residence prepared by means of a magnetic disk pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Act, a record; the same applies hereinafter).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-7/par-1: 次項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-7/par-2
- art-7/par-2: 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

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

- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第七条第一項（住民票の記載） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-7/par-1
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十一条第一項（届出に基づく住民票の記載等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-11/par-1
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十二条第一項（職権による住民票の記載等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-12/par-1
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十二条第二項（職権による住民票の記載等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-12/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-20261101T194611-001, 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
