# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2) - 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: 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2)（就労資格証明書） — address `art-19-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-2 - 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. --- ### 第十九条の二（就労資格証明書） — (Certificate of Authorization for Employment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-2 **第一項** 出入国在留管理庁長官は、本邦に在留する外国人から申請があつたときは、法務省令で定めるところにより、その者が行うことができる収入を伴う事業を運営する活動又は報酬を受ける活動を証明する文書を交付することができる。 art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-2/par-1 If an application has been submitted by a foreign national residing in Japan, the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency may issue a document which certifies the eligibility of the applicant for activities of managing business involving income or activities for which the foreign national receives remuneration, pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 何人も、外国人を雇用する等に際し、その者が行うことができる収入を伴う事業を運営する活動又は報酬を受ける活動が明らかな場合に、当該外国人が前項の文書を提示し又は提出しないことを理由として、不利益な取扱いをしてはならない。 art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-2/par-2 No one may give disadvantageous treatment to a foreign national for failure to show or submit the certificate set forth in the preceding paragraph in employing the foreign national, if the activities of managing business involving income or activities for which the foreign national receives remuneration that can be conducted by the foreign national is obvious. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19-2/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の二第一項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (1)), art-19-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-2/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の二第二項（就労資格証明書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-19-2/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第六十七条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-67-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-67-2/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 附則第二条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/suppl-4232-421/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/suppl-4232-421/art-2/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 附則第二項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-27/par-2/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/suppl-5072-27/par-2/item-7 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第十九条の四第一項（就労資格証明書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-19-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-19-4/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第六十三条第二項第六号（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-63/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-63/par-2/item-6 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 附則第二条第一項第四号（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-5089-47/art-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-5089-47/art-2/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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 - 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