# 住民基本台帳法 / Residential Basic Book Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) - Law: 住民基本台帳法 (Residential Basic Book Act), 昭和四十二年法律第八十一号 - English title "Residential Basic Book Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（戸籍の附票の作成） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-16 - 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. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十六条（戸籍の附票の作成） — Preparation of Family Register Supplement caption: machine translation, not official art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-16 **第一項** 市町村長は、その市町村の区域内に本籍を有する者につき、その戸籍を単位として、戸籍の附票を作成しなければならない。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-16/par-1 With respect to a person who has a registered domicile within the area of the municipality, the mayor of the municipality must prepare a family register supplement by unit of the family register. machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村長は、政令で定めるところにより、前項の戸籍の附票を磁気ディスクをもつて調製することができる。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-16/par-2 The mayor of the municipality may, as specified by Cabinet Order, prepare the family register supplement referred to in the preceding paragraph using a magnetic disk. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16/par-2: 前項 → 住民基本台帳法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-16/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 第十六条第二項（戸籍の附票の作成） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-16/par-2 - 住民基本台帳法 第十七条第一項（戸籍の附票の記載事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-17/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法 第二十条第一項（戸籍の附票の写しの交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-20/par-1 - 住民基本台帳法 第二十一条第二項（戸籍の附票の除票簿） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/art-21/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 住民基本台帳法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/342AC0000000081/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 住民基本台帳法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/883), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch residential-basic-book-act-20260923T191243-006, translated 2026-09-24 - This site's parser, version 211 — 住民基本台帳法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05