# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第十九条の十五の四 (Article 19-15-4) - Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法 (Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 昭和二十六年政令第三百十九号 - English title "Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act": Ministry of Justice translation - 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. - Issued as a Cabinet Order and given the force of an Act, which is why its number says 政令: Some rules made during the Allied occupation were issued as Cabinet Orders, as orders implementing Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and an Act passed in 1952 gave them the force of an Act. They keep the Cabinet Order number they were issued under, which is why e-Gov lists the law as an Act while its number says 政令 (Cabinet Order). The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法) is one: it was promulgated in 1951 as the Immigration Control Order (出入国管理令), Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951, has had the force of an Act under Article 4 of Act No. 126 of 1952, took its present title on 1 January 1982, and every amendment on e-Gov's record of it was made by an Act. - Provision: 第十九条の十五の四 (Article 19-15-4)（個人番号カードの機能の失効等に係る特定在留カードの取扱い） — address `art-19-15-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十九条の十五の四（個人番号カードの機能の失効等に係る特定在留カードの取扱い） — Treatment of Specified Residence Cards upon Invalidation of the Functions of the Individual Number Card, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-19-15-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-4 **第一項** 特定在留カードについては、番号利用法第十八条の五第九項の規定により個人番号カードとみなして適用する番号利用法第十七条第十項の規定による個人番号カードの失効は、その在留カードとしての効力に影響を及ぼさない。 art-19-15-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-4/par-1 With regard to a specified residence card, the invalidation of the Individual Number Card pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (10) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, as applied by deeming the specified residence card to be an Individual Number Card pursuant to the provisions of Article 18-5, paragraph (9) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, does not affect its effect as a residence card. machine translation, not official **第二項** 番号利用法第十八条の五第九項の規定により個人番号カードとみなして適用する番号利用法第十七条第十一項の規定又は番号利用法第四十七条の規定に基づく政令の規定による特定在留カードの返納は、これらの規定にかかわらず、法務省令で定める手続により、出入国在留管理庁長官に対して返納する方法により行うものとする。 art-19-15-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-4/par-2 The return of a specified residence card pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (11) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, as applied by deeming the specified residence card to be an Individual Number Card pursuant to the provisions of Article 18-5, paragraph (9) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, or pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order based on the provisions of Article 47 of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures is, notwithstanding those provisions, to be made by returning it to the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency in accordance with the procedures provided for by Ministry of Justice Order. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の場合において、当該特定在留カードを返納する者が引き続き中長期在留者に該当するときは、出入国在留管理庁長官は、当該返納の際に、入国審査官に、当該中長期在留者に対し、新たな在留カードを交付させるものとする。 art-19-15-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-4/par-3 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the person returning the specified residence card continues to fall under a mid- to long-term resident, the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency is to have an immigration inspector issue a new residence card to the mid- to long-term resident at the time of the return. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-19-15-4/par-1: 番号利用法第十八条の五第九項 → 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第十八条の五第九項 (Article 18-5, paragraph (9)), art-18-5/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-18-5/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-18-5/par-9 - art-19-15-4/par-1: 番号利用法第十七条第十項 → 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第十七条第十項 (Article 17, paragraph (10)), art-17/par-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-17/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-17/par-10 - art-19-15-4/par-2: 番号利用法第十八条の五第九項 → 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第十八条の五第九項 (Article 18-5, paragraph (9)), art-18-5/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-18-5/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-18-5/par-9 - art-19-15-4/par-2: 番号利用法第十七条第十一項 → 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第十七条第十一項 (Article 17, paragraph (11)), art-17/par-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-17/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-17/par-11 - art-19-15-4/par-2: 番号利用法第四十七条 → 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-47 - art-19-15-4/par-3: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の十五の四第二項 (Article 19-15-4, paragraph (2)), art-19-15-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-4/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の十五の二第一項（特定在留カードの交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-2/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の十五の四第三項（個人番号カードの機能の失効等に係る特定在留カードの取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-4/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の十五の五第一項（デジタル庁令・総務省令・法務省令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-15-5/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第六十一条の八の三第一項第二号（本人の出頭義務と代理人による届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-61-8-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-61-8-3/par-1/item-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第十九条の六第二項第五号（在留カードの記載事項等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-19-6/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-19-6/par-2/item-5 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十九条の四第二項第四号（出頭を要しない場合等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-59-4/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-59-4/par-2/item-4 - 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第十八条の五第七項（特定在留カード等の交付に伴う措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/my-number-act/art-18-5/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-18-5/par-7 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326CO0000000319/20261001_508AC0000000032), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3624/tb), retrieved 2026-09-13 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T134912-003, translated 2026-09-13 - claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260924T085530-001, translated 2026-09-24 - This site's parser, version 211 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05