(Change of Place of Residence and Issuance of Registration Certificate)

Article 8-2.

In case the alien, who has made the application under Article 3, Paragraph 1, Article 6, Paragraph 1, Article 6-2, Paragraph 1 or 2, Article 7, Paragraph 1, Article 9-2, Paragraph 1, or Article 11, Paragraph 1 or 2, has made the application under the preceding Article, Paragraph 1 before he has received the registration certificate issued to him through his application, in addition to the provisions of the said Article, the provisions of the following items shall apply:

(1) The registration certificate shall be delivered through the mayor or head of the city, town or village wherein the new place of residence is located;

(2) In case the mayor or head of the city, town or village, wherein the new place of residence is located, deems it necessary, he may change the period which the mayor or head of the city, town or village, wherein the former place of residence was located, has designated under Article 5, Paragraph 2 (including those cases wherein this provision is applied mutatis mutandis under Article 6, Paragraph 5, Article 6-2, Paragraph 6, Article 7, Paragraph 5 Article 9-2, Paragraph 6, and Article 11, Paragraph 5) in writing, in accordance with the Ministry of Justice Ordinance;

(3) In case the mayor or head of the city, town or village wherein the former place of residence is located has received the request made under the provision of the preceding Article, Paragraph 4, he shall forward promptly the registration certificate to be delivered to the alien concerned to the mayor or head of the city, town or village wherein the new place of residence is located.

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