# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の七十一 (Article 55-71) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-71. 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: 第五十五条の七十一 (Article 55-71)（調査） — address `art-55-71` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-71 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-71 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十五条の七十一（調査） — Investigation caption: machine translation, not official art-55-71 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-71 **第一項** 出入国在留管理庁長官は、職権で、審査の申請に関して必要な調査をするものとする。 art-55-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-71/par-1 The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency is to conduct the necessary investigation concerning a request for examination ex officio. machine translation, not official **第二項** 出入国在留管理庁長官は、前項の調査をするため必要があるときは、入国者収容所長等に対し、報告若しくは資料その他の物件の提出を命じ、又はその指名する職員をして、審査の申請をした者その他の関係者に対し質問をさせ、若しくは物件の提出を求めさせ、これらの者が提出した物件を留め置かせ、若しくは検証を行わせることができる。 art-55-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-71/par-2 If it is necessary for the investigation set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency may order the director of the immigration detention center, etc. to submit reports or materials or other objects, or have an official designated by the Commissioner question the person who filed the request for examination or other relevant persons or request them to submit objects, retain the objects submitted by those persons, or conduct an inspection. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-71/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の七十一第一項 (Article 55-71, paragraph (1)), art-55-71/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-71/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の七十一第二項（調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-71/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の七十三第三項（再審査の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-73/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-73/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の七十四第三項（出入国在留管理庁長官に対する事実の申告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-74/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-74/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の七十六第三項（法務大臣に対する事実の申告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-76/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-76/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十六条第一項（法務大臣に対する再審査の申請に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-16/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第二十一条第一項（法務大臣に対する事実の申告に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-21/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-20260913T134912-024, 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