# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の六十 (Article 55-60) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60. 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: 第五十五条の六十 (Article 55-60)（信書の検査） — address `art-55-60` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の六十（信書の検査） — Inspection of Letters caption: machine translation, not official art-55-60 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60 **第一項** 入国者収容所長等は、入国者収容所等の規律及び秩序の維持その他の理由により必要があると認める場合には、その指名する職員に、被収容者が発受する信書について、検査を行わせることができる。 art-55-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-1 If the director of the immigration detention center, etc. finds it necessary for maintaining discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc. or for any other reason, the director may have an official designated by the director inspect letters sent or received by detainees. machine translation, not official **第二項** 次に掲げる信書については、前項の検査は、これらの信書に該当することを確認するために必要な限度において行うものとする。ただし、第四号に掲げる信書について、入国者収容所等の規律及び秩序を害する結果を生ずるおそれがあると認めるべき特別の事情がある場合は、この限りでない。 art-55-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-2 For the following letters, the inspection set forth in the preceding paragraph is to be conducted to the extent necessary to confirm that they fall under those letters; provided, however, that this does not apply to letters set forth in item (iv) if there are special circumstances that give grounds to find that they are likely to result in harm to discipline and order at the immigration detention center, etc.: machine translation, not official **一** 領事官等から受ける信書 art-55-60/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-2/item-1 letters received from consular officers, etc.; machine translation, not official **二** 被収容者が国又は地方公共団体の機関から受ける信書 art-55-60/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-2/item-2 letters received by a detainee from an organ of the national government or of a local government; machine translation, not official **三** 被収容者が自己に対する入国者収容所長等の措置その他自己が受けた処遇に関し調査を行う国又は地方公共団体の機関に対して発する信書 art-55-60/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-2/item-3 letters sent by a detainee to an organ of the national government or of a local government that conducts an investigation concerning measures taken by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. against the detainee or other treatment the detainee has received; machine translation, not official **四** 被収容者が自己に対する入国者収容所長等の措置その他自己が受けた処遇に関し弁護士法第三条第一項に規定する職務を遂行する弁護士（弁護士法人又は弁護士・外国法事務弁護士共同法人を含む。次条第二項において同じ。）との間で発受する信書 art-55-60/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-2/item-4 letters sent or received by a detainee to or from an attorney (including a legal professional corporation or a joint corporation of attorneys and registered foreign lawyers; the same applies in paragraph (2) of the following Article) performing the duties provided for in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Attorney Act concerning measures taken by the director of the immigration detention center, etc. against the detainee or other treatment the detainee has received. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-60/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十第一項 (Article 55-60, paragraph (1)), art-55-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-1 - art-55-60/par-2: 第四号 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十第二項第四号 (Article 55-60, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-55-60/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-2/item-4 - art-55-60/par-2/item-4: 弁護士法第三条第一項 → e-Gov law 324AC1000000205, 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-55-60/par-2/item-4: 次条第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十一第二項 (Article 55-61, paragraph (2)), art-55-61/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-61/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 第五十五条の十二第四項（委員会に対する情報の提供及び委員の視察等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-12/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-12/par-4 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十第二項（信書の検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-60/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十一第一項（信書の内容による差止め等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-61/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の八十第二項（秘密申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-80/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-80/par-2 --- ## 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-20260913T134912-022, translated 2026-09-13 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T134912-023, 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