Supplementary Provisions, Article 161Transitional Measures Concerning Appeal
第百六十一条（不服申立てに関する経過措置）
With regard to an appeal under the Administrative Appeal Act against a disposition pertaining to affairs of the State, etc. that was made before the Effective Date and for which the administrative agency that made the disposition (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "the agency that made the disposition") had, before the Effective Date, a higher administrative agency prescribed in that Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "higher administrative agency"), the provisions of the Administrative Appeal Act apply by deeming the agency that made the disposition to continue to have a higher administrative agency even on or after the Effective Date. In this case, the administrative agency deemed to be the higher administrative agency of the agency that made the disposition is the administrative agency that was the higher administrative agency of that agency before the Effective Date.
施行日前にされた国等の事務に係る処分であって、当該処分をした行政庁（以下この条において「処分庁」という。）に施行日前に行政不服審査法に規定する上級行政庁（以下この条において「上級行政庁」という。）があったものについての同法による不服申立てについては、施行日以後においても、当該処分庁に引き続き上級行政庁があるものとみなして、行政不服審査法の規定を適用する。この場合において、当該処分庁の上級行政庁とみなされる行政庁は、施行日前に当該処分庁の上級行政庁であった行政庁とする。
In case of the preceding paragraph, when an administrative agency regarded as a higher administrative agency is an organ of a local public entity, the affairs said organ must process pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Appeal Act are the No. 1 statutory entrusted function provided for in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i), of the New Local Autonomy Act.
affairs of the State, etc.
「国等の事務」
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 159, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 161
higher administrative agencymachine translation
「上級行政庁」
The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 161, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
the agency that made the dispositionmachine translation
「処分庁」
The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 161, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article