Article 18-2.

Any person who comes under any one of the following items shall be punished with a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand yen:

(1) Any person who violates the provision of Article 7, Paragraph 7, Article 11, Paragraph 6 or 9 or Article 12, Paragraph 1 or 2;
(2) Any person who, in violation of the provision of Article 8, Paragraph 1 or 2 or Article 9, Paragraph 1 or 2, Article 9-2, Paragraph 1 or Article 9-3, Paragraph 1 fails to make an application in accordance with such provisions and stays in Japan over the period prescribed in those said paragraphs;
(3) Any person who makes a false application with respect to the application provided for in Article 9, Paragraph 2 (including the application in the cases provided for in Article 15, Paragraph 2 or 3);
(4) Any person, excluding a special permanent resident, who, in violation of the provision of Article 13, Paragraph 1, fails to carry with him the registration certificate.

Article 19.

Any special permanent resident who, in violation of the provision of Article 13, Paragraph 1, fails to carry with him the registration certificate, shall be punished with a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand yen.

2. If, in the cases provided for in Article 15, Paragraph 2, any one of the persons specified in the items of the said paragraph, in violation of the provision of Article 3, Paragraph 1, Article 6-2, Paragraph 1, Article 7, Paragraph 1, Article 8, Paragraph 1 or 2, Article 9, Paragraph 1 or 2, Article 9-2, Paragraph 1, Article 9-3, Paragraph 1 or Article 11, Paragraph 1 or 2, fails to make the application provided for in such provisions, fails to follow the order under the provision of Article 6, Paragraph 6, Article 6-2, Paragraph 2 or Article 10-2, Paragraph 2, fails to receive the registration certificate in violation of the provision of Article 13, Paragraph 1 or fails to return the registration certificate in violation of the provision of Article 7, Paragraph 7 or Article 12, Paragraph 1 or 2, such person shall be liable to a non-penal fine not exceeding fifty thousand yen. The same shall apply to the person who fails to return the registration certificate in violation of the provision of the main part of Article 12, Paragraph 3.

3. Any alien who procures a copy of a registration card or a certificate of registered matters, violating the provisions of Article 4-3, Paragraph 2 to 5 through fraud or in any other unlawful manner shall be punished with a fine not exceeding fifty thousand yen.

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