# 住民基本台帳法 / Residential Basic Book Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（住民基本台帳法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — address `suppl-5011-16/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三条（住民基本台帳法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — Preparatory Acts Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Residential Basic Book Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5011-16/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-3 **第一項** 市町村長（特別区の区長を含む。以下同じ。）は、附則第一条第九号に掲げる規定の施行の日（次条において「第九号施行日」という。）前においても、第二条の規定による改正後の住民基本台帳法（次項及び次条において「新住民基本台帳法」という。）第十七条（第五号及び第六号に係る部分に限る。）に規定する事務の実施のために必要な準備行為をすることができる。 suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1 The mayor of the municipality (including the head of a special ward; the same applies hereinafter) may, even before the day on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ix) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (referred to as the "item (ix) Effective Date" in the following Article), take the preparatory acts necessary for the implementation of the work prescribed in Article 17 (limited to the part pertaining to item (v) and item (vi)) of the Residential Basic Book Act as revised by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to as the "New Residential Basic Book Act" in the following paragraph and the following Article). machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村長、都道府県知事及び地方公共団体情報システム機構は、附則第一条第十号に掲げる規定の施行の日（次条及び附則第五条において「第十号施行日」という。）前においても、新住民基本台帳法第十七条（第三号、第四号及び第七号に係る部分に限る。）及び第四章の三に規定する事務の実施のために必要な準備行為をすることができる。 suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2 The mayor of the municipality, the prefectural governor, and the Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems may, even before the day on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (x) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (referred to as the "item (x) effective date" in the following Article and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions), take the preparatory acts necessary for the implementation of the work prescribed in Article 17 (limited to the part pertaining to item (iii), item (iv), and item (vii)) and Chapter IV-3 of the New Residential Basic Book Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1: 附則第一条第九号 → 住民基本台帳法 附則第一条第一項第九号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ix)), suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1/item-9 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1: 次条 → 住民基本台帳法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-5011-16/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-4 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1: 次項 → 住民基本台帳法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1: 第十七条 → 住民基本台帳法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-17 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1: 第五号 → 住民基本台帳法 第十七条第一項第五号 (Article 17, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-17/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-17/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-17/par-1/item-5 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1: 第六号 → 住民基本台帳法 第十七条第一項第六号 (Article 17, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-17/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-17/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-17/par-1/item-6 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2: 附則第一条第十号 → 住民基本台帳法 附則第一条第一項第十号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (x)), suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1/item-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1/item-10 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2: 次条 → 住民基本台帳法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-5011-16/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-4 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2: 新住民基本台帳法第十七条 → 住民基本台帳法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-17 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2: 第三号 → 住民基本台帳法 第十七条第一項第三号 (Article 17, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-17/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-17/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-17/par-1/item-3 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2: 第四号 → 住民基本台帳法 第十七条第一項第四号 (Article 17, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-17/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-17/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-17/par-1/item-4 - suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-2: 第七号 → 住民基本台帳法 第十七条第一項第七号 (Article 17, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-17/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/art-17/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-17/par-1/item-7 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 住民基本台帳法 附則第三条第一項（住民基本台帳法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/suppl-5011-16/art-3/par-1 --- ## 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-20260923T191243-043, 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