# 地方出入国在留管理局組織規則 / Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus — 第二十一条 (Article 21)

- Law: 地方出入国在留管理局組織規則 (Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus), 平成三十一年法務省令第二十七号
- English title "Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus": claude-opus-5-5
- 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（出張所長） — address `art-21`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-14
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/regional-immigration-services-bureau-organization-rules/art-21
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/431M60000010027/art-21
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### 第二十一条（出張所長） — Head of a Branch Office
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/regional-immigration-services-bureau-organization-rules/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/431M60000010027/art-21</sup>

**第一項**  出張所長は、出入国在留管理庁長官が定める官職を占める者のうちから任命権者がこれを命ずる。
<sup>art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/regional-immigration-services-bureau-organization-rules/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/431M60000010027/art-21/par-1</sup>
The head of a branch office is appointed by the appointing authority from among persons occupying posts designated by the Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-10-20
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 地方出入国在留管理局組織規則 — the text in force from 2026-06-14 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/431M60000010027/20260614_508M60000010039), retrieved 2026-10-20
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch regional-immigration-services-bureau-organization-rules-20261020T081822-005, translated 2026-10-20
- This site's parser, version 210 — 地方出入国在留管理局組織規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-20