Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 27 terms: 14 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 13 in our translation, marked as such.
In this Act, a disposition (処分) of an administrative agency (行政庁) or any other act that is an exercise of public authority (公権力), leaving out the determinations, decisions and other acts that an administrative agency makes on a request for administrative review (審査請求) or other appeal, which Article 3(3) calls determinations (裁決).
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2004, a disposition (処分) as defined in Article 3(2) of this Act as amended by Act No. 84 of 2004, used there to name the lawsuits pending when that Act came into effect in which the rules in force before it continue to decide who is the proper defendant.
新法第三条第二項に規定する処分
A determination (裁決), decision (決定) or other act by which an administrative agency (行政庁) responds to a request for review (審査請求) or any other appeal (不服申立て).
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2004, a determination (裁決) as defined in Article 3(3) of the Administrative Case Litigation Act as amended by Act No. 84 of 2004.
同条第三項に規定する裁決
Both kinds of lawsuit asking the court to revoke an administrative act: the action for the revocation of the original administrative disposition (処分の取消しの訴え) and the action for the revocation of an administrative determination (裁決の取消しの訴え).
A request for review (審査請求) or any other appeal (不服申立て) to which an administrative agency (行政庁) responds with a determination, decision or other act; this Act uses the one word for all of them.
A lawsuit objecting to an administrative agency's (行政庁) exercise of public authority (公権力).
行政庁の公権力の行使に関する不服の訴訟
The collective name for four kinds of lawsuit: actions for the judicial review of administrative dispositions (抗告訴訟), public law-related actions (当事者訴訟), citizen actions (民衆訴訟) and interagency actions (機関訴訟).
抗告訴訟、当事者訴訟、民衆訴訟及び機関訴訟
A lawsuit asking the court to revoke a disposition (処分) of an administrative agency (行政庁) or any other act that is an exercise of public authority (公権力), other than the determinations, decisions and other acts on appeals (裁決) that Article 3(3) covers.
行政庁の処分その他公権力の行使に当たる行為（次項に規定する裁決、決定その他の行為を除く。以下単に「処分」という。）の取消しを求める訴訟
義務付けの訴え
A lawsuit asking the court to order an administrative agency (行政庁) to make a disposition (処分) or determination (裁決), either where the agency has not made a particular disposition it ought to make (outside the second case), or where someone has applied, or made a request for review (審査請求), under a law or regulation for a particular disposition or determination and the agency has not made it although it ought to.
次に掲げる場合において、行政庁がその処分又は裁決をすべき旨を命ずることを求める訴訟
A lawsuit asking the court to revoke a determination (裁決), decision (決定) or other act by which an administrative agency (行政庁) responds to a request for review (審査請求) or any other appeal (不服申立て).
審査請求その他の不服申立て（以下単に「審査請求」という。）に対する行政庁の裁決、決定その他の行為（以下単に「裁決」という。）の取消しを求める訴訟
A court order, made on a petition once an action for the revocation of the original administrative disposition (処分の取消しの訴え) has been filed, suspending in whole or in part the effect of the disposition (処分), its enforcement or the continuation of the procedure that follows it, where this is urgently needed to avoid serious damage that these would cause.
A lawsuit asking the court to declare whether a disposition (処分) or determination (裁決) exists, or whether it has legal effect.
処分若しくは裁決の存否又はその効力の有無の確認を求める訴訟
A lawsuit about a disposition (処分) or determination (裁決) that confirms or creates a legal relationship between parties, in which a law or regulation makes one party to that relationship the defendant, or a lawsuit about a legal relationship under public law, such as one asking the court to confirm that relationship.
当事者間の法律関係を確認し又は形成する処分又は裁決に関する訴訟で法令の規定によりその法律関係の当事者の一方を被告とするもの及び公法上の法律関係に関する確認の訴えその他の公法上の法律関係に関する訴訟
民衆訴訟
A lawsuit seeking correction of an act of an organ (機関) of the State or of a public entity (公共団体) that does not conform to the law, brought by someone as a voter (選挙人) or in another capacity that does not rest on their own legal interest.
国又は公共団体の機関の法規に適合しない行為の是正を求める訴訟で、選挙人たる資格その他自己の法律上の利益にかかわらない資格で提起するもの
A lawsuit over a dispute between organs (機関) of the State or of a public entity (公共団体) about whether one of them holds a power (権限) or how it uses it.
国又は公共団体の機関相互間における権限の存否又はその行使に関する紛争についての訴訟
関連請求
A claim connected with an action for the revocation of an administrative disposition (取消訴訟): a claim for restoration or damages related to the disposition (処分) or determination (裁決), a claim to revoke another disposition that forms one procedure with it, a claim to revoke the determination on it or the disposition behind it, another claim to revoke the same disposition or determination, or any other claim related to the claim for its revocation.
The 1948 law on administrative lawsuits (行政事件訴訟特例法, Act No. 81 of 1948) that Article 2 of this Act's original supplementary provisions (附則) repeals as of 1 October 1962, the date this Act comes into effect.
A lawsuit asking the court to order an administrative agency (行政庁) not to make a particular disposition (処分) or determination (裁決) that it is about to make although it ought not to.
行政庁が一定の処分又は裁決をすべきでないにかかわらずこれがされようとしている場合において、行政庁がその処分又は裁決をしてはならない旨を命ずることを求める訴訟
A lawsuit asking the court to declare it unlawful that an administrative agency (行政庁), given an application made under a law or regulation, has not made any disposition (処分) or determination (裁決) on it within a reasonable period although it ought to have.
行政庁が法令に基づく申請に対し、相当の期間内に何らかの処分又は裁決をすべきであるにかかわらず、これをしないことについての違法の確認を求める訴訟
In Article 37-5, a court order, made on a petition once a mandamus action (義務付けの訴え) has been filed, provisionally directing an administrative agency (行政庁) to make the disposition (処分) or determination (裁決) the action concerns, where it is urgently needed to avoid damage that its not being made would cause and that could not be made good, and the claim on the merits appears well founded.
In Article 37-5, a court order, made on a petition once an action for an injunctive order (差止めの訴え) has been filed, provisionally directing an administrative agency (行政庁) not to make the disposition (処分) or determination (裁決) the action concerns, where it is urgently needed to avoid damage that making it would cause and that could not be made good, and the claim on the merits appears well founded.
This Act as amended by Act No. 84 of 2004.
In Article 12(5), the district court (地方裁判所) for the place where the high court (高等裁判所) sits whose district covers the plaintiff's general venue (普通裁判籍); Article 12(4) lets an action for the revocation of an administrative disposition (取消訴訟) against the State, an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人) as defined in Article 2(1) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies, or a juridical person listed in the Appended Table (別表) be filed there as well.
The date Act No. 47 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
In Article 15(2), the electronic record (電磁的記録) — a record made in electronic, magnetic or another form that people cannot perceive with their senses and that is used for processing by computer — created under Article 252(1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied by Article 122 of that Code, in which the court makes its order under Article 15(1) allowing a plaintiff who named the wrong defendant to change it.
民事訴訟法（平成八年法律第百九号）第百二十二条において準用する同法第二百五十二条第一項の規定により作成された電磁的記録（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものをいう。）
The operations (業務) and other functions, rights and obligations of the Japan Post public corporation (日本郵政公社), as Article 6(3) of the Postal Service Privatization Act defines them, which that Act passes to the companies and the organisation (機構) that succeeded it; the term appears in Article 61 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 102 of 2005.
同法第六条第三項に規定する業務等