# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) - 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（収容の手続） — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条（収容の手続） — (Procedures for Detention) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-42 **第一項** 入国警備官は、収容令書により容疑者を収容するときは、収容令書を容疑者に示さなければならない。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-42/par-1 If an immigration control officer detains a suspect pursuant to a written detention order, they must show the detention order to the suspect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 入国警備官は、収容令書を所持しない場合でも、急速を要するときは、容疑者に対し、容疑事実の要旨及び収容令書が発付されている旨を告げて、その者を収容することができる。但し、収容令書は、できるだけすみやかに示さなければならない。 art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-42/par-2 In urgent cases, an immigration control officer may detain a suspect by giving the suspect the facts of the suspected offense and informing them that the order has been issued even if the officer is not in possession of a written detention order; provided, however, that the order must be shown to the suspect as soon as possible. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十三条第七項（仮上陸の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-13/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-13/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 - 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