(Reissuance of Registration Certificate)

Article 7.

In case the alien has lost his registration certificate due to loss, theft, robbery or destruction, he shall apply for the reissuance of a registration certificate, submitting the documents and photographs specified in the following items to the mayor or head of the city, town or village wherein he resides within fourteen days of the day whereon he has become aware of such fact. The same shall apply to the case of the alien who had departed from Japan with the re-entry permission under Article 26 of the Immigration Control Act and re-entered Japan or who had departed from Japan with the Refugee Travel Document under Article 61-2-6 of the Immigration Control Act and entered Japan holding the Refugee Travel Document concerned without possessing his registration certificate excepting the cause of loss, theft, robbery or destruction:

(1) One application for issuance of registration certificate;
(2) Passport;
(3) Two photographs;
(4) Documents which the mayor of the city or the head of the town or village deems especially necessary in addition to those mentioned in the preceding items.

2. In the case of the application under the preceding paragraph, a person under the age of sixteen years shall not be required to submit his photographs.

3. In case the mayor of the city or the head of the town or village has received the application under Paragraph 1, he shall confirm whether the entry of the registration card is in accord with the actual facts.

4. The mayor of the city or the head of the town or village shall, in case he has confirmed under the preceding paragraph, issue a new registration certificate according to the registration card.

5. The provisions of Article 5, Paragraph 2 shall apply mutatis mutandis in the case of the preceding paragraph.

6. In case a registration certificate is reissued pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph 4, the registration certificate which has been issued to the alien concerned before the day of the issuance of the new registration certificate, shall lose its validity.

7. In case the alien has recovered the registration certificate which had lost its validity according to the provision of the preceding paragraph after the reissuance of the new registration certificate to him under Paragraph 4, he shall promptly return the registration certificate recovered to the mayor or head of the city, town or village wherein he resides.

8. The provisions of Paragraph 7 of Article 6 shall apply mutatis mutandis in the case wherein the application provided for in Paragraph 1 has been made.