# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第八条 (Article 8)

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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: 第八条 (Article 8)（住民票の消除） — address `art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-24
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### 第八条（住民票の消除） — Deletion of a Certificate of Residence
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  市町村長は、その市町村の住民基本台帳に記録されている者が転出をし、又は死亡したときその他その者についてその市町村の住民基本台帳の記録から除くべき事由が生じたときは、その者の住民票（その者が属していた世帯について世帯を単位とする住民票が作成されていた場合にあつては、その住民票の全部又は一部）を消除しなければならない。
<sup>art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-8/par-1</sup>
When a person recorded in the basic resident register of a municipality has moved out or died, or any other reason has arisen for removing that person from the record of the basic resident register of that municipality, the mayor of the municipality must delete the certificate of residence of that person (or, where a certificate of residence by household unit had been prepared for the household to which that person belonged, all or part of that certificate of residence).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十一条第一項（届出に基づく住民票の記載等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-11/par-1
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十二条第一項（職権による住民票の記載等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-12/par-1
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第十二条第二項（職権による住民票の記載等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-12/par-2
- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第三十二条第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-32/par-1

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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-20261101T194611-001, 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
