# 住民基本台帳法 / Residential Basic Book Act — 第六条 (Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（住民基本台帳の作成） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（住民基本台帳の作成） — Preparation of the Basic Resident Register caption: machine translation, not official art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6 **第一項** 市町村長は、個人を単位とする住民票を世帯ごとに編成して、住民基本台帳を作成しなければならない。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6/par-1 The mayor of the municipality must prepare the basic resident register by organizing, by household, certificates of residence for each individual. machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村長は、適当であると認めるときは、前項の住民票の全部又は一部につき世帯を単位とすることができる。 art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6/par-2 The mayor of the municipality may, when the mayor finds it appropriate, make the household the unit for all or part of the certificates of residence referred to in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 市町村長は、政令で定めるところにより、第一項の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。）をもつて調製することができる。 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 The mayor of the municipality may, as specified by Cabinet Order, prepare the certificates of residence referred to in paragraph (1) 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). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-6/par-2: 前項 → 住民基本台帳法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6/par-1 - art-6/par-3: 第一項 → 住民基本台帳法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 第六条第二項（住民基本台帳の作成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6/par-2 - 住民基本台帳法 第六条第三項（住民基本台帳の作成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6/par-3 - 住民基本台帳法 第七条第一項（住民票の記載事項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-7/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法 第十一条第一項（国又は地方公共団体の機関の請求による住民基本台帳の一部の写しの閲覧） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-11/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法 第十二条第一項（本人等の請求による住民票の写し等の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法 第十五条の二第二項（除票簿） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-15-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-15-2/par-2 - 住民基本台帳法 附則第四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-4211-77/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-4211-77/art-4/par-3 --- ## 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-20260923T191243-001, 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