Supplementary Provisions, Article 161Transitional Measures for Appeals
第百六十一条（不服申立てに関する経過措置）
For an appeal under the Administrative Appeals Act against a measure that has been taken, before the effective date and in connection with an administrative process of the national government or another public entity, by an administrative agency (hereinafter referred to in this Article as an "issuing agency") that answered to a higher administrative agency as prescribed in that Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "higher administrative agency") prior to the effective date, the issuing agency is deemed to continue to answer to a higher administrative agency even after the effective date, and the Administrative Appeals Act applies. In such a case, the agency deemed to be the higher administrative agency to which the issuing agency answers is that to which it answered 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 a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the agency that is deemed to be the higher administrative agency is a local government entity, the administrative processes to be handled by the entity pursuant to the Administrative Appeals Act constitute item (i) statutorily entrusted functions as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the New Local Autonomy Act.