# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第六十一条の二の十六 (Article 61-2-16) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-61-2-16. 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: 第六十一条の二の十六 (Article 61-2-16)（退去強制令書の発付に伴う難民認定証明書等の返納） — address `art-61-2-16` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-61-2-16 - e-Gov law ID: 326CO0000000319 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十一条の二の十六（退去強制令書の発付に伴う難民認定証明書等の返納） — (Return of the Certificate of Refugee Status with the Issuance of a Deportation Order) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-61-2-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-61-2-16 **第一項** 本邦に在留する外国人で難民の認定又は補完的保護対象者の認定を受けているものが、第四十七条第五項後段（第四十八条第十項及び第四十九条第七項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により又は第六十三条第一項の規定に基づく退去強制の手続において、退去強制令書の発付を受けたときは、当該外国人は、速やかに出入国在留管理庁長官にその所持する難民認定証明書及び難民旅行証明書又は補完的保護対象者認定証明書を返納しなければならない。 art-61-2-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-61-2-16/par-1 If a foreign national residing in Japan who has been granted recognition of refugee status or recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection is issued a deportation order pursuant to the provisions of the second sentence of Article 47, paragraph (5) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 48, paragraph (10) and Article 49, paragraph (7)), or through the deportation procedures pursuant to the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (1), the foreign national must promptly return the certificate of refugee status and refugee travel document or the certificate of recognition as a person eligible for complementary protection in their possession to the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-61-2-16/par-1: 第四十七条第五項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第四十七条第五項 (Article 47, paragraph (5)), art-47/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-47/par-5 - art-61-2-16/par-1: 第四十八条第十項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第四十八条第十項 (Article 48, paragraph (10)), art-48/par-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-48/par-10 - art-61-2-16/par-1: 第四十九条第七項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第四十九条第七項 (Article 49, paragraph (7)), art-49/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-49/par-7 - art-61-2-16/par-1: 第六十三条第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第六十三条第一項 (Article 63, paragraph (1)), art-63/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-63/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第七十二条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-72/par-1/item-10 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第六十三条第二項第二十三号（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-63/par-2/item-23 (e-Gov law ID 356M50000010054) --- ## 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-20260918T121515-003, translated 2026-09-18 - This site's parser, version 225 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05