# 住民基本台帳法 / Residential Basic Book Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - Law: 住民基本台帳法 (Residential Basic Book Act), 昭和四十二年法律第八十一号 - English title "Residential Basic Book Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（戸籍の附票の除票簿） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（戸籍の附票の除票簿） — File of Removed Family Register Supplements caption: machine translation, not official art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-21 **第一項** 市町村長は、戸籍の附票の全部を消除したとき、又は戸籍の附票を改製したときは、その消除した戸籍の附票又は改製前の戸籍の附票（以下「戸籍の附票の除票」と総称する。）をつづり、戸籍の附票の除票簿として保存しなければならない。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-21/par-1 If the mayor of the municipality has deleted a family register supplement in full, or has remade a family register supplement, the mayor must file the deleted family register supplement or the family register supplement before the remaking (collectively referred to below as a "removed family register supplement") and preserve it as a file of removed family register supplements. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第十六条第二項の規定により磁気ディスクをもつて戸籍の附票を調製している市町村にあつては、磁気ディスクをもつて調製した戸籍の附票の除票を蓄積して戸籍の附票の除票簿とすることができる。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-21/par-2 For a municipality that prepares a family register supplement using a magnetic disk under Article 16, paragraph (2), the municipality may accumulate the removed family register supplements prepared using a magnetic disk, and treat them as a file of removed family register supplements. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-21/par-2: 第十六条第二項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-16/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 第二十一条の二第一項（戸籍の附票の除票の記載事項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-21-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-21-2/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法 第二十一条の三第一項（戸籍の附票の除票の写しの交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-21-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-21-3/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法 附則第四条第五項（住民基本台帳法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-4/par-5 - 住民基本台帳法 附則第四条第六項（住民基本台帳法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-4/par-6 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 住民基本台帳法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/342AC0000000081/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 住民基本台帳法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/883), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch residential-basic-book-act-20260923T191243-007, translated 2026-09-24 - This site's parser, version 211 — 住民基本台帳法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05