# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-2. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（経過措置） — address `suppl-5072-17/art-2` - 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/suppl-5072-17/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5072-17/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-2 **第一項** この政令の施行の際現に住民票に旧氏（住民基本台帳法施行令第三十条の十三に規定する旧氏をいう。以下同じ。）の記載（住民基本台帳法（附則第八条第二項において「法」という。）第六条第三項の規定により磁気ディスクをもって調製する住民票にあっては、記録。以下同じ。）がされている者（既に次項の規定による記載がされた者を除く。）は、施行日から起算して一年以内に限り、住所地市町村長（同令第三十条の十四第一項に規定する住所地市町村長をいう。以下同じ。）に対し、当該旧氏に用いられる文字の読み方を示す文字の住民票への記載を請求することができる。この場合において、当該請求をする者は、住所地市町村長において特別の事情があると認める場合を除き、当該請求に係る文字が示す読み方が当該旧氏に用いられる文字の読み方として通用していることを証する書面を提出しなければならない。 suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1 A person who, at the time this Cabinet Order comes into effect, has a former surname (meaning the former surname prescribed in Article 30-13 of the Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act; the same applies hereinafter) entered in the certificate of residence (or, for a certificate of residence prepared by means of a magnetic disk under Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Residential Basic Book Act (referred to as the "Act" in Article 8, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions), recorded; the same applies hereinafter) (excluding a person for whom an entry under the provisions of the following paragraph has already been made) may, only within one year from the Effective Date, request the mayor of the municipality of domicile (meaning the mayor of the municipality of domicile prescribed in Article 30-14, paragraph (1) of that Order; the same applies hereinafter) to enter in the certificate of residence the characters indicating the reading of the characters used in that former surname; in this case, the person making the request must submit a document certifying that the reading indicated by the characters pertaining to the request is in general use as the reading of the characters used in that former surname, except where the mayor of the municipality of domicile finds that there are special circumstances. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の請求を受けた住所地市町村長は、当該請求に係る旧氏に用いられる文字の読み方を示す文字を、旧氏の振り仮名（住民基本台帳法施行令第三十条の十三に規定する旧氏の振り仮名をいう。以下同じ。）として住民票に記載をするものとする。この場合において、当該記載がされた者に係る同条及び同令第三十条の十四の規定その他の法令の規定の適用については、当該記載がされた文字を旧氏の振り仮名とみなす。 suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2 The mayor of the municipality of domicile who has received a request under the preceding paragraph is to enter in the certificate of residence the characters indicating the reading of the characters used in the former surname pertaining to the request, as the kana reading of the former surname (meaning the kana reading of the former surname prescribed in Article 30-13 of the Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act; the same applies hereinafter); in this case, for the application of that Article, Article 30-14 of that Order and other provisions of laws and regulations to the person for whom that entry has been made, the characters so entered are deemed to be the kana reading of the former surname. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1: 住民基本台帳法施行令第三十条の十三 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 第三十条の十三 (Article 30-13), art-30-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-30-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-30-13 - suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1: 附則第八条第二項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第八条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (2)), suppl-5072-17/art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-8/par-2 - suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1: 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 - suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1: 次項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2 - suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2: 前項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1 - suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2: 住民基本台帳法施行令第三十条の十三 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 第三十条の十三 (Article 30-13), art-30-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-30-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-30-13 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第二条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第二条第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-2/par-2 - 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-3/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-5/par-1 --- ## 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-20261101T194611-018, translated 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order-20261101T194611-020, 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