In conducting hearings, an administrative agency must provide a written notice of the following matters to the person who is to be subject to an adverse disposition, within a reasonable period of time before the date of the hearing:
行政庁は、聴聞を行うに当たっては、聴聞を行うべき期日までに相当な期間をおいて、不利益処分の名宛人となるべき者に対し、次に掲げる事項を書面により通知しなければならない。
the content of the anticipated adverse disposition and the specific provisions of laws and regulations that are to be the grounds for the anticipated adverse disposition;
the fact that is to be the cause of the adverse disposition;
不利益処分の原因となる事実
the date and place of the hearing; and
聴聞の期日及び場所
the name and location of the organization that has jurisdiction over the affairs relating to the hearing.
聴聞に関する事務を所掌する組織の名称及び所在地
The document referred to in the preceding paragraph must indicate the following matters:
前項の書面においては、次に掲げる事項を教示しなければならない。
that the subject person may appear and state their opinion on the date of the hearing and submit evidence documents or articles of evidence (referred to as "evidence documents or other evidence"), or may submit written statements and evidence documents or other evidence in lieu of appearing on the date of the hearing; and
聴聞の期日に出頭して意見を述べ、及び証拠書類又は証拠物（以下「証拠書類等」という。）を提出し、又は聴聞の期日への出頭に代えて陳述書及び証拠書類等を提出することができること。
that until the conclusion of the hearing, the subject person may request to inspect materials proving the fact that is to be the cause of the adverse disposition.
聴聞が終結する時までの間、当該不利益処分の原因となる事実を証する資料の閲覧を求めることができること。
If the whereabouts of the person to be the subject of an adverse disposition is unknown, an administrative agency may give the notice under the provisions of paragraph (1) by the method of public notice.
The notice given by the method of public notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to be issued by a notice of the fact that the document stating the name of the person that is to be the subject of the adverse disposition, the matters stated in paragraph (1), items (iii) and (iv), and the matters the administrative agency has entered in each item of that paragraph is to be delivered to that person at any time (referred to as "matters of public notice" below) is to be kept in a state in which the notice may be inspected by an unspecified and large number of persons through the method specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and posting a document stating the matters of public notice at the posting area of the office of the administrative agency, or by taking the measures of making the object on which the matters of public notice are displayed on a screen of a computer installed in the office available for inspection. In such a case, the notice is deemed to have reached that person when two weeks have passed since the day on which the measures were commenced.
前項の公示の方法による通知は、不利益処分の名宛人となるべき者の氏名、第一項第三号及び第四号に掲げる事項並びに当該行政庁が同項各号に掲げる事項を記載した書面をいつでもその者に交付する旨（以下この項において「公示事項」という。）を総務省令で定める方法により不特定多数の者が閲覧することができる状態に置くとともに、公示事項が記載された書面を当該行政庁の事務所の掲示場に掲示し、又は公示事項を当該事務所に設置した電子計算機の映像面に表示したものの閲覧をすることができる状態に置く措置をとることによって行うものとする。この場合においては、当該措置を開始した日から二週間を経過したときに、当該通知がその者に到達したものとみなす。