# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の六十六 (Article 55-66)

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- 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: 第五十五条の六十六 (Article 55-66)（電話等による通信） — address `art-55-66`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第五十五条の六十六（電話等による通信） — Communication by Telephone, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-55-66 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-66</sup>

  **第一項**  入国者収容所長等は、被収容者に対し、相当と認めるときは、電話その他政令で定める電気通信の方法による通信を行うことを許すことができる。
  <sup>art-55-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-66/par-1</sup>
  The director of the immigration detention center, etc. may, when finding it appropriate, permit a detainee to communicate by telephone or by other means of telecommunication specified by Cabinet Order.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  第五十五条の六十三の規定は、前項の通信について準用する。
  <sup>art-55-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-66/par-2</sup>
  The provisions of Article 55-63 apply mutatis mutandis to the communication set forth in the preceding paragraph.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-55-66/par-2: 第五十五条の六十三 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十三 (Article 55-63), art-55-63 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-63
- art-55-66/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十六第一項 (Article 55-66, paragraph (1)), art-55-66/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-66/par-1

## 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 第五十五条の六十六第二項（電話等による通信） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-66/par-2
- 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十七第一項（通信の確認等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-67/par-1
- 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の六十七第二項（通信の確認等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-67/par-2
- 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十条の六第一項第十号（委員会に対する情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-50-6/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-50-6/par-1/item-10

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## 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-20260913T134912-023, translated 2026-09-13
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T134912-024, 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