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取消し(とりけし)

Undoing a legal act, such as an offer or acceptance of a contract (意思表示, a manifestation of intention), that the law says may be rescinded: for example one made through an importan…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 5, 95, 96, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126 and Consumer Contract Act, Arts. 4, 7 as a reference.

国税不服審判所(こくぜいふふくしんぱんしょ)

The body within the National Tax Agency that decides requests for review (審査請求) of tax decisions (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Article 22; Act on General Rules…

Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Art. 22 and Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 75, 78, 102, 115 as a reference.

労働者災害補償保険審査官(ろうどうしゃさいがいほしょうほけんしんさかん)

One of the two kinds of labor insurance examiner (労働保険審査官) (Act on Labor Insurance Examiners and the Labor Insurance Appeal Committee, Article 1): placed in each prefectural labor…

Written by AI using Act on Labor Insurance Examiners and the Labor Insurance Appeal Committee, Arts. 1, 2, 2-2, 3, 4, 8, Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act, Arts. 38, 40 and Labor Standards Act, Arts. 85, 86 as a reference.

雇用保険審査官(こようほけんしんさかん)

An official who decides requests for review (審査請求) under the Employment Insurance Act: of a confirmation that someone became or stopped being an insured person, of a decision on it…

Written by AI using Act on Labor Insurance Examiners and the Labor Insurance Appeal Committee, Arts. 2, 2-2, 3, 7 and 8 and Employment Insurance Act, Arts. 69 and 71 as a reference.

医道審議会(いどうしんぎかい)

A council (審議会) set up in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Article 6, paragraph (1)) to deal with th…

Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Arts. 6, 10 and Medical Practitioners' Act, Arts. 7, 10, 11, 16-2, 16-3, 16-10, 16-11, 24-2 as a reference.

医籍(いせき)

The register of physicians kept at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, which records the date of each registration, any reprimand, suspension or revocation of a licence, an…

Written by AI using Medical Practitioners' Act, Arts. 5, 6, 7-2, 16-6 as a reference.

対抗(たいこう)

To be able to rely on a right, or on a fact about it, against someone who is not a party to it. Acquiring, losing or changing a right in rem (物権) in land or a building cannot be as…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 96, 177, 605 and Act on Land and Building Leases, Arts. 10, 31 as a reference.

解除(かいじょ)

Ending a contract by one party's notice to the other, where the contract or the law gives that party a right to cancel (Civil Code, Article 540, paragraph (1)). The Civil Code lets…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 121, 540, 541, 542, 545, 620 as a reference.

意思表示(いしひょうじ)

A person's expression of an intention to which the law gives a legal effect, such as an offer to conclude a contract, which shows its terms and forms the contract once the other pa…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 123, 522, 527, 540, Consumer Contract Act, Art. 4 and Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, Arts. 6, 9-3 as a reference.

action for the revocation of the original administrative disposition

処分の取消しの訴え(しょぶんのとりけしのうったえ)

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

action for the revocation of an administrative determination

裁決の取消しの訴え(さいけつのとりけしのうったえ)

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

revocation of designation

指定の取消し(していのとりけし)

In Article 37-2, the revocation under paragraph 5 of that Article of the designation (指定) by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (総務大臣) of a prefecture or municipality (都道府県等) to which donations count as donations eligible for the special deduction (特例控除対象寄附金) from prefectural inhabitant tax (道府県民税).

Date of Designation Rescission

指定取消し等の日(していとりけしとうのひ)

In Article 64-25, the day on which a former real estate transaction guarantee association (旧協会) had its designation under Article 64-2, paragraph (1) cancelled, or was dissolved.

revoking a certification, etc.

認定の取消し等(にんていのとりけしとう)

In Article 46, the Prime Minister's rescinding a qualified consumer organization's (適格消費者団体) certification under Article 34, paragraph (1), or finding under Article 34, paragraph (3) that an organization whose certification had already ended had grounds under item (iv) of paragraph (1) — having conducted a lawsuit or similar proceedings in a way that seriously went against the interests of consumers at large.

case of revocation of approval

承認の取消しの場合(しょうにんのとりけしのばあい)

In Article 20, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Income Tax Act, etc. (Act No. 8 of 2020), the case where a domestic corporation's approval to pay corporation tax as a consolidated group (連結納税) under Article 4-2 of the Corporation Tax Act as it stood before that Act was treated as cancelled under Article 4-5, paragraph (2) of that wording, including where it was so cancelled under the former rules kept by Article 16, paragraph (2) of those supplementary provisions.

case of revocation of approval

承認の取消しの場合(しょうにんのとりけしのばあい)

The case where a corporation's approval under Article 4-2 of the Corporation Tax Act as it stood before Act No. 8 of 2020 was revoked under Article 4-5, paragraph (1) or (2) of that wording, including revocation under the earlier rules kept by Article 16, paragraph (1) or (2) of that Act's supplementary provisions (附則).

determination

決定(けってい)

A determination of tax under Article 25 of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes, by which the district tax office director (税務署長) fixes the tax base and tax of someone who should have filed a return and did not; in the Articles this definition lists, the word is used in another sense.

第十九条(納税地指定の処分の取消しがあつた場合の申告等の効力)、第四十四条の二(免責許可の決定等により債務免除を受けた場合の経済的利益…

whistleblowing

公益通報(こうえきつうほう)

A report made, not for a wrongful purpose such as gaining an unfair benefit or harming others, by one of the persons the items of Article 2, paragraph (1) list (workers, dispatched workers (派遣労働者) and officers (役員) among them), that a reportable fact (通報対象事実) has occurred or is about to occur at the business operator (事業者) the item names for that person, the recipient of services (役務提供先), or among its officers, employees, agents or others, made to that business operator or a person it designated in advance, to an administrative body (行政機関) with authority to make a disposition (処分) or recommendation about the fact or a person that body designated in advance, or to another person to whom reporting it is considered necessary to prevent it or the spread of the harm it causes.

…役務提供先があらかじめ定めた者(以下「役務提供先等」という。)、当該通報対象事実について処分(命令、取消しその他公権力の行使に当たる行為をいう。以下同じ。)若しくは勧告等(勧告その他処分に当たらない行為をい…

disposition

処分(しょぶん)

An order, a revocation or another act by which public authority is exercised.

命令、取消しその他公権力の行使に当たる行為

recommendation, etc.

勧告等(かんこくとう)

A recommendation, or any other act that is not a disposition (処分, an order, revocation or other exercise of public authority).

勧告その他処分に当たらない行為

specified forest under a forest management plan

特定森林経営計画対象山林(とくていしんりんけいえいけいかくたいしょうさんりん)

Standing timber or land, etc. that the deceased owned just before the inheritance began and that lies in an area for which a forest management plan (森林経営計画) certified by the mayor or other authority under Article 11(5) of the Forest Act had been set before the inheritance — other than plans a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) excludes or whose certification was cancelled, and other than land in a district for developing forest health facilities — limited to forest a Ministry of Finance Order treats as managed efficiently as a whole.

…で定めるもの及び同法第十六条又は木材の安定供給の確保に関する特別措置法第九条第四項の規定による認定の取消しがあつたものを除く。以下この項において「森林経営計画」という。)が定められている区域内に存するもの(…

divorce or similar circumstances

離婚等(りこんとう)

In Chapter III-2, a divorce (but not the end of an unregistered de facto marriage), an annulment of marriage, or another event a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets (Article 78-2, paragraph (1)).

離婚(婚姻の届出をしていないが事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあつた者について、当該事情が解消した場合を除く。)、婚姻の取消しその他厚生労働省令で定める事由

driving without a license

無免許運転(むめんきょうんてん)

Driving on a road a motor vehicle (自動車) that only the holder of a driver's license (運転免許), or a person whom Article 107-2 of the Road Traffic Act lets drive on an international driving permit (国際運転免許証) or foreign driver's license (外国運転免許証), may drive, either without the license (including while it is suspended) or without holding that permit or foreign license; the latter includes driving on one by a person whom Article 88, paragraph (1), items (ii) to (iv) of the Road Traffic Act excludes from being granted a license, such as one whose license is suspended or was cancelled or who is banned from driving, and driving on one more than one year after the day of landing (上陸) in Japan, where a return within three months does not count as a landing for a person recorded in the resident register (住民基本台帳) who left with a confirmation of departure (出国の確認), a re-entry permit (再入国の許可), including one treated as granted on leaving, or a refugee travel document (難民旅行証明書); "road" is as Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Road Traffic Act defines it, which also covers other places used for general traffic.

法令の規定による運転の免許を受けている者又は道路交通法第百七条の二の規定により国際運転免許証若しくは外国運転免許証で運転することができるとされている者でなければ運転することができないこととされている自…

driving record certificate

運転経歴証明書(うんてんけいれきしょうめいしょ)

In Article 105-2 and the following Article, a document showing, by a category modelled on the categories of driver with an exemplary record (優良運転者), driver with a satisfactory record (一般運転者) and driver with a violation or a short record (違反運転者等) in the table in Article 95-6, paragraph (1), a person's driving history for the five years before their license was revoked at their request under Article 104-4, paragraph (2) or lapsed under Article 105, which such a person may apply for.

当該取消しを受けた日又は当該免許が失効した日前五年間の自動車等の運転に関する経歴について、第九十五条の六第一項…

driving record information

運転経歴情報(うんてんけいれきじょうほう)

In Article 105-2 and the following Article, information showing, by driving record category (運転経歴区分), a person's driving history for the five years before their license was revoked at their request under Article 104-4, paragraph (2) or lapsed under Article 105, which they may apply to have recorded on their Individual Number Card (個人番号カード).

第百四条の四第二項の規定による免許の取消しを受けた日又は免許が前条の規定により効力を失つた日前五年間の自動車等の運転に関する経歴について、運転経歴区分により示した情報

examinations and judgments

審査判定業務(しんさはんていぎょうむ)

The work of examination and judgment that the Certification Committee (認定審査会) does under Articles 27 to 35 and Article 37, which a prefecture (都道府県) entrusted by a municipality (市町村) under Article 252-14, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act carries out through a prefectural certification committee (都道府県介護認定審査会).

第二十七条から第三十五条まで及び前条の規定により認定審査会が行う業務

liquidating membership companies

清算持分会社(せいさんもちぶんがいしゃ)

A membership company that is being wound up, which is treated as still existing for the purposes of the liquidation until the liquidation is completed.

actions for the revocation of administrative dispositions

取消訴訟(とりけしそしょう)

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).

demand for revocation of fraudulent act

詐害行為取消請求(さがいこういとりけしせいきゅう)

A demand by which an obligee (債権者) asks the court, under Article 424, paragraph (1), to revoke an act the obligor (債務者) did knowing it would harm the obligee.