# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第六十八条の二 (Article 68-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-68-2. 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: 第六十八条の二 (Article 68-2)（事務の区分） — address `art-68-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-68-2 - 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). English: as marked on each line below. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十八条の二（事務の区分） — (Category of Administrative Affairs) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-68-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-68-2 **第一項** 第十九条の七第一項及び第二項（第十九条の八第二項及び第十九条の九第二項において準用する場合を含む。）、第十九条の八第一項、第十九条の九第一項並びに第十九条の十五の二第二項、第六項及び第九項後段の規定により市町村が処理することとされている事務は、地方自治法第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。 art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-68-2/par-1 The administrative affairs to be handled by municipalities pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-7, paragraphs (1) and (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-8, paragraph (2) and Article 19-9, paragraph (2)), Article 19-8, paragraph (1), Article 19-9, paragraph (1) and Article 19-15-2, paragraphs (2) and (6) and the second sentence of paragraph (9) are to be Type 1 of the statutory entrusted functions provided in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-68-2/par-1: 第十九条の七第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の七第一項 (Article 19-7, paragraph (1)), art-19-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-7/par-1 - art-68-2/par-1: 第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の七第二項 (Article 19-7, paragraph (2)), art-19-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-7/par-2 - art-68-2/par-1: 第十九条の八第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の八第二項 (Article 19-8, paragraph (2)), art-19-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-8/par-2 - art-68-2/par-1: 第十九条の九第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の九第二項 (Article 19-9, paragraph (2)), art-19-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-9/par-2 - art-68-2/par-1: 第十九条の八第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の八第一項 (Article 19-8, paragraph (1)), art-19-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-8/par-1 - art-68-2/par-1: 第十九条の九第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の九第一項 (Article 19-9, paragraph (1)), art-19-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-9/par-1 - art-68-2/par-1: 第十九条の十五の二第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の十五の二第二項 (Article 19-15-2, paragraph (2)), art-19-15-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-2/par-2 - art-68-2/par-1: 第六項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の十五の二第六項 (Article 19-15-2, paragraph (6)), art-19-15-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-2/par-6 - art-68-2/par-1: 第九項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第十九条の十五の二第九項 (Article 19-15-2, paragraph (9)), art-19-15-2/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-19-15-2/par-9 - art-68-2/par-1: 地方自治法第二条第九項第一号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二条第九項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i)), art-2/par-9/item-1 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20260913T134912-033, translated 2026-09-13 - 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