# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第十五条 (Article 15)

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- Law: 住民基本台帳法施行令 (Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act), 昭和四十二年政令第二百九十二号
- English title "Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: CabinetOrder — 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（住民票の写しを交付する場合の記載） — address `art-15`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15
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### 第十五条（住民票の写しを交付する場合の記載） — Statement When a Copy of a Certificate of Residence Is Issued
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  市町村長は、法第十二条第一項、第十二条の二第一項又は第十二条の三第一項若しくは第二項の規定により住民票の写し（法第六条第三項の規定により磁気ディスクをもつて住民票を調製している市町村にあつては、当該住民票に記録されている事項を記載した書類。以下第十五条の四までにおいて同じ。）を交付する場合には、当該住民票の写しの末尾に原本と相違ない旨を記載しなければならない。
<sup>art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15/par-1</sup>
When the mayor of the municipality issues a copy of a certificate of residence (for a municipality that prepares certificates of residence by means of a magnetic disk pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Act, a document stating the matters recorded in that certificate of residence; the same applies through Article 15-4) pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), Article 12-2, paragraph (1), or Article 12-3, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act, the mayor must state at the end of that copy of the certificate of residence that it is identical to the original.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-15/par-1: 法第十二条第一項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12/par-1
- art-15/par-1: 第十二条の二第一項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の二第一項 (Article 12-2, paragraph (1)), art-12-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-2/par-1
- art-15/par-1: 第十二条の三第一項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の三第一項 (Article 12-3, paragraph (1)), art-12-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-3/par-1
- art-15/par-1: 第二項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の三第二項 (Article 12-3, paragraph (2)), art-12-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-3/par-2
- art-15/par-1: 法第六条第三項 → 住民基本台帳法 第六条第三項 (Article 6, paragraph (3)), art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-6/par-3
- art-15/par-1: 第十五条の四 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十五条の四 (Article 15-4), art-15-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15-4

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十七条の二第二項（住民票に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-17-2/par-2
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第二十一条第二項（住民票に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-21/par-2
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第二十一条第三項（住民票に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-21/par-3
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第三十二条第二項（指定都市の区及び総合区に対するこの政令の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-32/par-2

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-02
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 住民基本台帳法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/342CO0000000292/20261024_508CO0000000281), retrieved 2026-11-01
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order-20261101T194611-003, translated 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 222 — 住民基本台帳法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01
