Article 1. This Law aims at the restrictions of the removal of residence which is necessary due to critical shortage of housing, employment, adequate food distribution and in time of national calamities resulting from an excessive concentration of population in urban centers.

Article 2. No person shall remove his or her residence into any of the areas fixed in the Annexed Table with the exception of cases where a person, coming under any of the undermentioned items and having imperious reasons for changing his or her residence to the said area, has obtained the approval of the mayor of the city or the chief of the town, village or special ward to which he or she intends to move in: 1. Persons engaged in works necessary for the rehabilitation of national life in the abovementioned area; 2. Officials of Governmental or Municipal Offices located in the abovementioned area; 3. Teachers, students and pupils of schools located in the abovementioned area and designated by the Prefectural Governor; 4. Relatives in the same census register as any person of abovementioned items supported by him or by her; 5. Persons coming back from a foreign country or oversea territory; 6. Persons admitted to social work facilities located in the said area, and other persons designated by the competent Minister. Mayor of a city or chief of town, village or special ward may give the approval of the exceptional cases abovementioned, limiting the period of the change of residence, to the persons whose reason of removal is temporal. The mayor of the city mentioned in the provisions of Paragraph 2 of Article 155 of the Local Self-Government Law, may delegate to the chief of a ward a part of the business mentioned in Paragraph 1.

Article 3. Necessary measures concerning the procedure for the approval mentioned in the preceding Article shall be determined by the competent Minister.

Article 4. Any person who, without obtaining the approval mentioned in Article 2 hereof, has moved his or her residence to any of the areas mentioned in the said Article, or who has obtained the said approval by fraud or by other illegal means shall be liable to a fine, not exceeding 3,000 yen or a detention.