Supplementary Provisions, Article 161Transitional Measures Concerning Appeals
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 Complaint Review 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 "disposition agency") 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 Complaint Review Act apply by deeming the disposition agency to continue to have a higher administrative agency on and after the effective date. In this case, the administrative agency deemed to be the higher administrative agency of the disposition agency is the administrative agency that was the higher administrative agency of that disposition 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 the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the administrative agency deemed to be the higher administrative agency is an organ of a local government, the affairs that the organ is to handle pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Complaint Review Act are Type 1 statutory entrusted affairs prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the new Local Autonomy Act.