# 国籍法施行規則 / Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — 制定文（一） (Enacting Statement 1)

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- Law: 国籍法施行規則 (Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act), 昭和五十九年法務省令第三十九号
- English title "Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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.
- Provision: 制定文（一） (Enacting Statement 1) — address `enact-1`
- Text in force since: 2016-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/enact-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/enact-1
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**制定文（一）**  国籍法（昭和二十五年法律第百四十七号）第十九条並びに国籍法及び戸籍法の一部を改正する法律（昭和五十九年法律第四十五号）附則第五条第一項及び第六条第一項の規定に基づき、国籍法施行規則の全部を改正する省令を次のように定める。
<sup>enact-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act-enforcement-regulation/enact-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/359M50000010039/enact-1</sup>
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 19 of the Nationality Act (Act No. 147 of 1950) and Article 5, paragraph (1) and Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Nationality Act and the Family Register Act (Act No. 45 of 1984), the Ministerial Order for the complete revision of the Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act is established as follows.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- enact-1: 国籍法（昭和二十五年法律第百四十七号）第十九条 → 国籍法 第十九条 (Article 19), art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/nationality-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000147/art-19

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国籍法施行規則 — the text in force from 2016-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/359M50000010039/20160401_428M60000010009), retrieved 2026-11-02
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Enforcement Regulation of the Nationality Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3926/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch nationality-act-enforcement-regulation-20261102T174006-001, translated 2026-11-03
- This site's parser, version 222 — 国籍法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02
