# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第十五条の四 (Article 15-4)

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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: 第十五条の四 (Article 15-4)（法第十二条の四第一項の規定による住民票の写しの交付） — address `art-15-4`
- 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-15-4
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### 第十五条の四（法第十二条の四第一項の規定による住民票の写しの交付） — Issuance of a Copy of a Certificate of Residence under Article 12-4, paragraph (1) of the Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-15-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15-4</sup>

**第一項**  交付地市町村長（法第十二条の四第二項に規定する交付地市町村長をいう。次項において同じ。）は、同条第四項の規定により住民票の写しを作成する場合には、同条第三項の規定による通知に基づかなければならない。
<sup>art-15-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15-4/par-1</sup>
When the mayor of the issuing municipality (meaning the mayor of the issuing municipality prescribed in Article 12-4, paragraph (2) of the Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) prepares a copy of a certificate of residence pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article, the mayor must do so based on the notification under the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  交付地市町村長は、前項の規定により作成した住民票の写しの末尾に、法第十二条の四第一項に規定する住所地市町村長から当該請求に係る住民票に記載されている事項が同条第三項の規定により通知され、当該住民票の写しが当該通知に基づき作成されたものである旨を記載しなければならない。
<sup>art-15-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15-4/par-2</sup>
The mayor of the issuing municipality must state, at the end of the copy of the certificate of residence prepared pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that the matters entered in the certificate of residence relating to the request were notified, under Article 12-4, paragraph (3) of the Act, by the mayor of the municipality of domicile prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article, and that the copy of the certificate of residence was prepared based on that notice.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-15-4: 法第十二条の四第一項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の四第一項 (Article 12-4, paragraph (1)), art-12-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-4/par-1
- art-15-4/par-1: 法第十二条の四第二項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の四第二項 (Article 12-4, paragraph (2)), art-12-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-4/par-2
- art-15-4/par-1: 次項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十五条の四第二項 (Article 15-4, paragraph (2)), art-15-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15-4/par-2
- art-15-4/par-1: 同条第四項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の四第四項 (Article 12-4, paragraph (4)), art-12-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-4/par-4
- art-15-4/par-1: 同条第三項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の四第三項 (Article 12-4, paragraph (3)), art-12-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-4/par-3
- art-15-4/par-2: 前項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十五条の四第一項 (Article 15-4, paragraph (1)), art-15-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15-4/par-1
- art-15-4/par-2: 法第十二条の四第一項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の四第一項 (Article 12-4, paragraph (1)), art-12-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-4/par-1
- art-15-4/par-2: 同条第三項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十二条の四第三項 (Article 12-4, paragraph (3)), art-12-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-12-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-12-4/par-3

## Cited by

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

- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十五条第一項（住民票の写しを交付する場合の記載） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15/par-1
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十五条の四第一項（法第十二条の四第一項の規定による住民票の写しの交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15-4/par-1
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十五条の四第二項（法第十二条の四第一項の規定による住民票の写しの交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-15-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-15-4/par-2
- 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

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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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order-20261101T194611-004, translated 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 219 — 住民基本台帳法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01
