If the requester for review or an intervenor so petitions, the presiding tribunal judge must give the person who made the petition an opportunity to state an opinion orally on the case concerning the request for review.

In making the statement of opinion under the preceding paragraph (referred to as an "oral statement of opinion" in the following paragraph and Article 97-4, paragraph (2), item (ii) (Conclusion of Review Proceedings)), the person who made the petition referred to in the preceding paragraph may, with the permission of the presiding tribunal judge, ask questions of the agency that made the original disposition concerning the case concerning the request for review.

The provisions of the proviso to Article 84, paragraph (1), and paragraphs (2), (3) and (5) of that Article (Procedures for Determinations, etc.) apply mutatis mutandis to the oral statement of opinion referred to in paragraph (1). In this case, the term "reinvestigation authority" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "presiding tribunal judge", the phrase "the requester for reinvestigation and the intervenors" with "all parties to the proceedings", the term "reinvestigation authority" in paragraph (3) of that Article with "presiding tribunal judge", and the phrase "the reinvestigation authority or the official referred to in the preceding paragraph" in paragraph (5) of that Article with "the presiding tribunal judge".

An associate tribunal judge may, under the orders of the presiding tribunal judge, give the permission referred to in paragraph (2) and perform the acts referred to in Article 84, paragraph (5) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms.