# 住民基本台帳法施行令 / Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-5072-17/art-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/suppl-5072-17/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-5072-17/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-4 **第一項** 前条第一項の規定による記載がされた者（既に次項の規定による記載がされた者を除く。）は、住所地市町村長に対し、当該記載に係る旧氏に用いられる文字の読み方を示す文字を他の文字に変更すること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-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-1 A person for whom an entry under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article has been made (excluding a person for whom an entry under the following paragraph has already been made) may request the mayor of the municipality of domicile to change the characters indicating the reading of the characters used in the former surname pertaining to that entry to other characters; 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住民基本台帳法施行令第三十条の十三及び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-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-4/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; in this case, for the application of Articles 30-13 and 30-14 of the Order for the Enforcement of the Residential Basic Book Act 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-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-5072-17/art-3/par-1 — 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 - suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-1: 次項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-2 - suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-1 - suppl-5072-17/art-4/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 - suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-2: 第三十条の十四 → 住民基本台帳法施行令 第三十条の十四 (Article 30-14), art-30-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/art-30-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/art-30-14 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法施行令 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342CO0000000292/suppl-5072-17/art-4/par-2 - 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-20261101T194611-020, 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