# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の五十四 (Article 55-54) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第五十五条の五十四 (Article 55-54)（災害時の避難及び解放） — address `art-55-54` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の五十四（災害時の避難及び解放） — Evacuation and Release in the Event of a Disaster caption: machine translation, not official art-55-54 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54 **第一項** 入国者収容所長等は、地震、火災その他の災害に際し、入国者収容所等内において避難の方法がないときは、被収容者を適当な場所に護送しなければならない。 art-55-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54/par-1 In the event of an earthquake, fire or other disaster, if there is no means of evacuation within the immigration detention center, etc., the director of the immigration detention center, etc. must escort detainees to an appropriate place. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、被収容者を護送することができないときは、入国者収容所長等は、その者を入国者収容所等から解放することができる。地震、火災その他の災害に際し、入国者収容所等の外にある被収容者を避難させるため適当な場所に護送することができない場合も、同様とする。 art-55-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if it is not possible to escort detainees, the director of the immigration detention center, etc. may release them from the immigration detention center, etc. The same applies if, in the event of an earthquake, fire or other disaster, it is not possible to escort a detainee who is outside the immigration detention center, etc. to an appropriate place for evacuation. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の規定により解放された者は、避難を必要とする状況がなくなつた後速やかに、入国者収容所等又は入国者収容所長等が指定した場所に出頭しなければならない。 art-55-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54/par-3 A person released pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must appear at the immigration detention center, etc. or at a place designated by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. promptly after the situation requiring evacuation has ceased. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-54/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五十四第一項 (Article 55-54, paragraph (1)), art-55-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54/par-1 - art-55-54/par-3: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五十四第二項 (Article 55-54, paragraph (2)), art-55-54/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の三十五第一項第二号（逃走者等の遺留物） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-35/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-35/par-1/item-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五十四第二項（災害時の避難及び解放） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の五十四第三項（災害時の避難及び解放） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-54/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十一条の六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-71-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-71-6/par-1 --- ## 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-20260913T134912-021, translated 2026-09-13 - This site's parser, version 223 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05