An administrative agency with which a request for review has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, or the provisions of other laws or Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance (including an administrative agency that has taken over the relevant documents and objects pursuant to the provisions of Article 14; referred to as a "reviewing agency" below) must nominate a person who conducts the procedures for proceedings prescribed in Section 3 (including procedures prescribed in this Section) from among the employees that belong to the reviewing agency (when a name list prescribed in Article 17 has been prepared, persons stated in that name list), and notify that fact to the requestor for review and the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition (limited to the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition other than the reviewing agency); provided, however, that this does not apply when any of the agencies stated in the following items fall under the reviewing agency or there are specific provisions in the Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance for dispositions based on the Ordinance, or when the request for review is dismissed pursuant to the provisions of Article 24:
第四条又は他の法律若しくは条例の規定により審査請求がされた行政庁（第十四条の規定により引継ぎを受けた行政庁を含む。以下「審査庁」という。）は、審査庁に所属する職員（第十七条に規定する名簿を作成した場合にあっては、当該名簿に記載されている者）のうちから第三節に規定する審理手続（この節に規定する手続を含む。）を行う者を指名するとともに、その旨を審査請求人及び処分庁等（審査庁以外の処分庁等に限る。）に通知しなければならない。ただし、次の各号のいずれかに掲げる機関が審査庁である場合若しくは条例に基づく処分について条例に特別の定めがある場合又は第二十四条の規定により当該審査請求を却下する場合は、この限りでない。
committees prescribed in Article 49, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act;
内閣府設置法第四十九条第一項若しくは第二項又は国家行政組織法第三条第二項に規定する委員会
organs prescribed in Article 37 or Article 54 of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or Article 8 of the National Government Organization Act;
内閣府設置法第三十七条若しくは第五十四条又は国家行政組織法第八条に規定する機関
committees or committee members prescribed in Article 138-4, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), or organs prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article.
地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第百三十八条の四第一項に規定する委員会若しくは委員又は同条第三項に規定する機関
A person to be nominated by the reviewing agency pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be a person other than those stated in the following items:
a person who has been involved in the disposition related to a request for review or in the decision for a request for re-investigation for the disposition, or a person who has been involved or is to be involved in the disposition for an inaction related to a request for review;
a requestor for review;
審査請求人
the spouse, a relative within the fourth degree of kinship of a requestor for review, or a relative living together with a requestor for review;
審査請求人の配偶者、四親等内の親族又は同居の親族
the agent of a requestor for review;
審査請求人の代理人
a person who was a person stated in any of the preceding two items;
前二号に掲げる者であった者
a guardian, a supervisor of guardians, a curator, a supervisor of curators, an assistant, or a supervisor of assistants of a requestor for review; and
審査請求人の後見人、後見監督人、保佐人、保佐監督人、補助人又は補助監督人
an interested person prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1).
When the reviewing agency is one of the agencies stated in the items of paragraph (1) or when there are specific provisions in the proviso to that paragraph, for applying the provisions stated in the left-hand column of the Appended Table 1, the terms in those provisions stated in the middle column of that Table are to be replaced with the terms stated in the right-hand column of that Table, and the provisions of Article 17, Article 40, Article 42, and Article 50, paragraph (2) do not apply.
In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if it is found necessary, the reviewing agency may have its employees (limited to persons other than those stated in the items of paragraph (2) (for members of the organs stated in the items of paragraph (1), excluding item (i))) hear opinions of the requestor for review prescribed in Article 31, paragraph (1) as applied pursuant to the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms or the intervenor prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (4), hear opinions of the witness under the provisions of Article 34 as applied pursuant to the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms, conduct a verification under the provisions of Article 35, paragraph (1) as applied pursuant to the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms, ask questions to the persons concerned with proceedings prescribed in Article 28 under the provisions of Article 36 as applied pursuant to the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms, or hold a hearing of opinions under the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1) or (2) as applied pursuant to the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms.
前項に規定する場合において、審査庁は、必要があると認めるときは、その職員（第二項各号（第一項各号に掲げる機関の構成員にあっては、第一号を除く。）に掲げる者以外の者に限る。）に、前項において読み替えて適用する第三十一条第一項の規定による審査請求人若しくは第十三条第四項に規定する参加人の意見の陳述を聴かせ、前項において読み替えて適用する第三十四条の規定による参考人の陳述を聴かせ、同項において読み替えて適用する第三十五条第一項の規定による検証をさせ、前項において読み替えて適用する第三十六条の規定による第二十八条に規定する審理関係人に対する質問をさせ、又は同項において読み替えて適用する第三十七条第一項若しくは第二項の規定による意見の聴取を行わせることができる。
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