# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第八条の二 (Article 8-2)

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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: 第八条の二 (Article 8-2)（日本の国籍の取得又は喪失による住民票の記載及び消除） — address `art-8-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-24
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### 第八条の二（日本の国籍の取得又は喪失による住民票の記載及び消除） — Entry in the Certificate of Residence and Deletion of a Certificate of Residence upon Acquisition or Loss of Japanese Nationality
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-8-2</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日本の国籍を有しない者が日本の国籍の取得をしたときは、その者の法第七条各号に掲げる事項を記載した住民票（次項において「日本人住民としての住民票」という。）を作成し、又はその属する世帯の住民票にその者に関する同条各号に掲げる事項の記載をするとともに、その者の法第三十条の四十五の規定により記載をするものとされる事項を記載した住民票（次項において「外国人住民としての住民票」という。）（その者が属する世帯について世帯を単位とする住民票が作成されている場合にあつては、その住民票の全部又は一部）の消除をしなければならない。
<sup>art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-8-2/par-1</sup>
When a person who does not have Japanese nationality and who is recorded in the basic resident register of the municipality has acquired Japanese nationality, the mayor of the municipality must prepare a certificate of residence stating the matters listed in the items of Article 7 of the Act for that person (referred to as a "certificate of residence as a Japanese resident" in the following paragraph), or make an entry in the certificate of residence of the household to which that person belongs of the matters listed in the items of that Article concerning that person, and at the same time delete the certificate of residence stating the matters to be entered for that person pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-45 of the Act (referred to as a "certificate of residence as a foreign resident" in the following paragraph) (or, where a certificate of residence by household unit has been prepared for the household to which that person belongs, all or part of that certificate of residence).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  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日本の国籍を有する者が日本の国籍を失つたときは、その者の外国人住民としての住民票を作成し、又はその属する世帯の住民票にその者に関する法第三十条の四十五の規定により記載をするものとされる事項の記載をするとともに、その者の日本人住民としての住民票（その者が属する世帯について世帯を単位とする住民票が作成されている場合にあつては、その住民票の全部又は一部）の消除をしなければならない。
<sup>art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-8-2/par-2</sup>
When a person who has Japanese nationality and who is recorded in the basic resident register of the municipality has lost Japanese nationality, the mayor of the municipality must prepare a certificate of residence as a foreign resident for that person, or make an entry in the certificate of residence of the household to which that person belongs of the matters to be entered concerning that person pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-45 of the Act, and at the same time delete the certificate of residence as a Japanese resident of that person (or, where a certificate of residence by household unit has been prepared for the household to which that person belongs, all or part of that certificate of residence).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-8-2/par-1: 法第七条 → 住民基本台帳法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-7
- art-8-2/par-1: 次項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 第八条の二第二項 (Article 8-2, paragraph (2)), art-8-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-8-2/par-2
- art-8-2/par-1: 法第三十条の四十五 → 住民基本台帳法 第三十条の四十五 (Article 30-45), art-30-45 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-30-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-30-45
- art-8-2/par-2: 法第三十条の四十五 → 住民基本台帳法 第三十条の四十五 (Article 30-45), art-30-45 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-30-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-30-45

## Cited by

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

- 住民基本台帳法施行令 第八条の二第一項（日本の国籍の取得又は喪失による住民票の記載及び消除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-8-2/par-1
- 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order-20261101T194611-002, 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
