第四百十七条（固定資産の価格等の全てを登録した旨の公示の日以後における価格等の決定又は修正等）
Where the mayor of a municipality discovers, on or after the date of the public notice under Article 411, paragraph (2), that registration of the price, etc. of a fixed asset has not been made or that the registered price, etc. contains a material error, the mayor must immediately determine the price, etc., or revise the determined price, etc., so as not to be out of balance with the prices of similar fixed assets registered in the fixed assets tax ledger, and register it in the fixed assets tax ledger. In this case, the mayor must, without delay, notify the person liable for tax of the fixed assets tax imposed on that fixed asset to that effect.
Where the prefectural governor or the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications discovers, after giving the notice under Article 389, paragraph (1), that the determination of the price, etc. of a fixed asset has not been made or that the determined price, etc. contains a material error, the governor or the Minister must immediately determine the price, etc., or revise the determined price, etc., so as not to be out of balance with the prices of similar fixed assets, and in addition determine the municipality in which the fixed asset subject to that determination or revision is deemed to be located, distribute the price, etc. subject to that determination or revision to that municipality, and notify the mayor of that municipality of the fixed assets subject to the distribution and the price, etc. distributed. In this case, the governor or the Minister must, without delay, notify the owner of that fixed asset to that effect.
道府県知事又は総務大臣は、第三百八十九条第一項の規定による通知をした後において固定資産の価格等の決定がなされていないこと又は決定された価格等に重大な錯誤があることを発見した場合においては、直ちに、類似の固定資産の価格と均衡を失しないように価格等を決定し、又は決定された価格等を修正するとともに、当該決定又は修正に係る固定資産が所在するものとされる市町村を決定し、及び当該決定又は修正に係る価格等を当該市町村に配分し、その配分に係る固定資産及びその配分した価格等を当該市町村の長に通知しなければならない。この場合においては、道府県知事又は総務大臣は、遅滞なく、その旨を当該固定資産の所有者に通知しなければならない。
The provisions of Article 389, paragraphs (2) through (5), and paragraph (6) of that Article (excluding the part relating to item (i)) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.
第三百八十九条第二項から第五項まで及び同条第六項（第一号に係る部分を除く。）の規定は、前項の場合に準用する。
The provisions of Article 390 apply mutatis mutandis where the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications intends to make a ruling on a request for review concerning the determination or distribution of the price, etc. under paragraph (2), and the provisions of Article 399 apply mutatis mutandis where the prefectural governor or the Minister has made a ruling on a request for review concerning the determination or distribution of the price, etc. under that paragraph.
Article 418Sending of Summary Reports on the Price, etc. of Fixed Assets to the Prefectural Governor
第四百十八条（道府県知事に対する固定資産の価格等の概要調書の送付）
Where the mayor of a municipality has determined the price, etc. of fixed assets under Article 410, paragraph (1) or has registered the price, etc. of fixed assets under Article 389, paragraph (2), the mayor must prepare a summary report of the results as provided by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and send it to the prefectural governor during April each year; provided, however, that where the determination was made on or after April 1 pursuant to the proviso to Article 410, paragraph (1), the mayor must send it within one month from the date of the determination.
市町村長は、第四百十条第一項の規定によつて固定資産の価格等を決定した場合又は第三百八十九条第二項の規定によつて固定資産の価格等を登録した場合においては、総務省令の定めるところによつて、その結果の概要調書を作成し、毎年四月中に、これを道府県知事に送付しなければならない。ただし、第四百十条第一項ただし書の規定により四月一日以後に決定した場合にあつては、その決定した日から一月以内に送付しなければならない。
第四百十九条（固定資産の価格等の修正に関する道府県知事の勧告）
Where the prefectural governor finds that the determination of the price of fixed assets in a municipality has not been carried out in accordance with the fixed asset valuation standards under Article 388, paragraph (1), the governor is to recommend to the mayor of that municipality that the prices registered in the fixed assets tax ledger be revised and registered.
道府県知事は、市町村における固定資産の価格の決定が第三百八十八条第一項の固定資産評価基準によつて行なわれていないと認める場合においては、当該市町村の長に対し、固定資産課税台帳に登録された価格を修正して登録するように勧告するものとする。
Where the mayor of a municipality who has received the recommendation under the preceding paragraph finds, with regard to that recommendation, that it is necessary to revise the price, etc. of fixed assets, the mayor must, without delay, revise and register that price, etc.
前項の勧告をうけた市町村長は、その勧告について、固定資産の価格等を修正する必要があると認める場合においては、遅滞なく、その価格等を修正して登録しなければならない。
Where the mayor of a municipality has revised and registered the price, etc. of fixed assets under the preceding paragraph, the mayor must immediately give public notice to that effect.
市町村長は、前項の規定によつて、固定資産の価格等を修正して登録した場合においては、直ちに、その旨を公示しなければならない。
Where the mayor of a municipality has revised and registered the price, etc. of land or houses under paragraph (2), the mayor must immediately prepare the land price, etc. inspection register or the house price, etc. inspection register.
The mayor of a municipality may, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, prepare the land price, etc. inspection register or the house price, etc. inspection register under the preceding paragraph by creating electronic or magnetic records.
Where the mayor of a municipality has prepared the land price, etc. inspection register or the house price, etc. inspection register under paragraph (4), the mayor must, for a period of 20 days or more from the date of preparation, at a place designated by the mayor, make the land price, etc. inspection register or a copy thereof (where the preparation of that land price, etc. inspection register is carried out by creating electronic or magnetic records under the preceding paragraph, a document stating the matters recorded in that land price, etc. inspection register; the same applies in the following paragraph) available for inspection by taxpayers of fixed assets tax imposed on land located within the municipality, or make the house price, etc. inspection register or a copy thereof (where the preparation of that house price, etc. inspection register is carried out by creating electronic or magnetic records under the preceding paragraph, a document stating the matters recorded in that house price, etc. inspection register; the same applies in the following paragraph) available for inspection by taxpayers of fixed assets tax imposed on houses located within the municipality.
市町村長は、第四項の規定によつて、土地価格等縦覧帳簿又は家屋価格等縦覧帳簿を作成した場合においては、その作成の日から二十日以上の期間、その指定する場所において、当該土地価格等縦覧帳簿若しくはその写し（当該土地価格等縦覧帳簿の作成が前項の規定により電磁的記録の作成をもつて行われている場合にあつては、当該土地価格等縦覧帳簿に記録をされている事項を記載した書類。次項において同じ。）を当該市町村内に所在する土地に対して課する固定資産税の納税者の縦覧に供し、又は家屋価格等縦覧帳簿若しくはその写し（当該家屋価格等縦覧帳簿の作成が前項の規定により電磁的記録の作成をもつて行われている場合にあつては、当該家屋価格等縦覧帳簿に記録をされている事項を記載した書類。次項において同じ。）を当該市町村内に所在する家屋に対して課する固定資産税の納税者の縦覧に供しなければならない。
When the mayor of a municipality makes the land price, etc. inspection register or a copy thereof, or the house price, etc. inspection register or a copy thereof, available for inspection by taxpayers of fixed assets tax imposed on land or houses located within the municipality under the preceding paragraph, the mayor may make the matters entered in the land price, etc. inspection register or the house price, etc. inspection register (or, where the preparation of that land price, etc. inspection register or house price, etc. inspection register is carried out by creating electronic or magnetic records under paragraph (5), recorded therein) available for inspection by displaying them on a screen.
The mayor of a municipality must give public notice in advance of the place and period of inspection under paragraph (6).
市町村長は、第六項の縦覧の場所及び期間を、あらかじめ、公示しなければならない。
Article 420Reassessment of the Assessed Amount Based on Revision of the Price, etc. of Fixed Assets
第四百二十条（固定資産の価格等の修正に基く賦課額の更正）
Where the mayor of a municipality has revised and registered the price, etc. of fixed assets under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the mayor must, even after the assessment of fixed assets tax, reassess the assessed amount already determined on the basis of the revised and registered price, etc.
市町村長は、前条第二項の規定によつて固定資産の価格等を修正して登録した場合においては、固定資産税の賦課後であつても、修正して登録された価格等に基いて、既に決定したその賦課額を更正しなければならない。
第四百二十一条（道府県知事に対する修正登録した固定資産の価格等の概要調書の送付等）
Where the mayor of a municipality has revised and registered the price, etc. of fixed assets under Article 419, paragraph (2), the mayor must prepare a new summary report and send it to the prefectural governor within 40 days from the date of receiving the recommendation.
市町村長は、第四百十九条第二項の規定によつて固定資産の価格等を修正して登録した場合において、新たに概要調書を作成して、勧告を受けた日から四十日以内に、これを道府県知事に送付しなければならない。
The mayor of a municipality who has received the recommendation under Article 419, paragraph (1), where the mayor finds that the revision under paragraph (2) of that Article is unnecessary, must report to that effect to the prefectural governor within 20 days from the date of receiving the recommendation.
第四百二十二条（総務大臣に対する固定資産の価格等の概要調書の送付）
The prefectural governor must, on the basis of the summary reports under Article 418 or Article 421, paragraph (1) or the reports under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and within one month after receiving all the summary reports and the reports under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, prepare a summary report on the price, etc. of fixed assets within the prefecture and send it to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.
第四百二十二条の二（固定資産の価格の修正に関する総務大臣の指示）
Where the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that the determination of the price of fixed assets in a municipality has not been carried out in accordance with the fixed asset valuation standards under Article 388, paragraph (1), the Minister is to instruct the prefectural governor to make the recommendation under Article 419, paragraph (1) to the mayor of that municipality.
総務大臣は、市町村における固定資産の価格の決定が第三百八十八条第一項の固定資産評価基準によつて行なわれていないと認める場合においては、道府県知事に対し、当該市町村の長に第四百十九条第一項の勧告をするように指示するものとする。
When the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications intends to give the instruction under the preceding paragraph, the Minister must hear the opinion of the Local Finance Council.
総務大臣は、前項の指示をしようとするときは、地方財政審議会の意見を聴かなければならない。
The prefectural governor who has received the instruction under paragraph (1) must, within 30 days from the date of receiving that instruction, report to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications on the measures taken pursuant to that instruction.
第一項の指示を受けた道府県知事は、当該指示を受けた日から三十日以内に、当該指示に基づいてした措置について総務大臣に報告しなければならない。
第四百二十二条の三（土地又は家屋の基準年度の価格又は比準価格の登記所への通知）
Where the mayor of a municipality has determined or revised the base-year price or comparison-based price of land and houses under Article 410, paragraph (1), Article 417, Article 419, paragraph (2) or Article 435, paragraph (2), the mayor must, without delay, notify the registry office having jurisdiction over the location of the land or house subject to that determination or revision of that base-year price or comparison-based price and other matters specified by Ministerial Order.
Subsection 6 Review of Objections Relating to the Price of Fixed Assets
第六款 固定資産の価格に係る不服審査
Article 423Establishment and Selection, etc. of the Fixed Asset Valuation Review Board
第四百二十三条（固定資産評価審査委員会の設置、選任等）
A fixed asset valuation review board is to be established in each municipality to review and decide on objections relating to prices registered in the fixed assets tax ledger.
固定資産課税台帳に登録された価格に関する不服を審査決定するために、市町村に、固定資産評価審査委員会を設置する。
The number of members of the fixed asset valuation review board is three or more, as provided for by the Municipal Ordinance of the municipality.
固定資産評価審査委員会の委員の定数は三人以上とし、当該市町村の条例で定める。
The members of the fixed asset valuation review board are selected by the mayor of the municipality, with the consent of the municipal assembly, from among residents of the municipality, persons with a tax liability for municipal tax, or persons with knowledge and experience in the valuation of fixed assets.
固定資産評価審査委員会の委員は、当該市町村の住民、市町村税の納税義務がある者又は固定資産の評価について学識経験を有する者のうちから、当該市町村の議会の同意を得て、市町村長が選任する。
Where a seat of a member of the fixed asset valuation review board falls vacant, the mayor of a municipality must, without delay, select a substitute member for that member. In this case, if the municipal assembly is not in session, the mayor may, notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, select the substitute member without obtaining the consent of the assembly.
市町村長は、固定資産評価審査委員会の委員が欠けた場合においては、遅滞なく、当該委員の補欠の委員を選任しなければならない。この場合において当該市町村の議会が閉会中であるときは、市町村長は、前項の規定にかかわらず、議会の同意を得ないで補欠委員を選任することができる。
Where the mayor of a municipality has selected a substitute member, the mayor must obtain ex post approval of the selection at the first session of the assembly after the selection. In this case, if ex post approval cannot be obtained, the mayor must dismiss that member.
市町村長は、補欠の委員を選任した場合においては、選任後最初の議会においてその選任について事後の承認を得なければならない。この場合において事後の承認を得ることができないときは、市町村長は、その委員を罷免しなければならない。
The term of office of a member of the fixed asset valuation review board is three years; provided, however, that the term of office of a substitute member is the remainder of the term of the predecessor.
固定資産評価審査委員会の委員の任期は、三年とする。ただし、補欠の委員の任期は、前任者の残任期間とする。
A member of the fixed asset valuation review board may receive an allowance according to the number of days of attendance at meetings of the board, as provided for by the Municipal Ordinance of the municipality.
固定資産評価審査委員会の委員は、当該市町村の条例の定めるところによつて、委員会の会議への出席日数に応じ、手当を受けることができる。
Where a municipality has been established, the person who performs the duties of the mayor of that municipality until the mayor is elected may, until the mayor is elected, fill the positions of members of the fixed asset valuation review board of that municipality with persons selected from among those who were members of the fixed asset valuation review boards of the relevant municipalities to which the area of that municipality previously belonged.
市町村の設置があつた場合においては、当該市町村の長が選挙されるまでの間当該市町村の長の職務を行う者は、当該市町村の長が選挙されるまでの間は、従来当該市町村の地域の属していた関係市町村の固定資産評価審査委員会の委員であつた者のうちから選任したものをもつて当該市町村の固定資産評価審査委員会の委員に充てることができる。
Where a municipality has been established, until members of the fixed asset valuation review board are selected with the consent of the assembly first convened after the establishment of that municipality, the mayor of that municipality may fill the positions of members of the fixed asset valuation review board of that municipality with persons selected from among those who were members of the fixed asset valuation review boards of the relevant municipalities to which the area of that municipality previously belonged.
市町村の設置があつた場合においては、当該市町村の設置後最初に招集される議会の同意を得て固定資産評価審査委員会の委員が選任されるまでの間は、当該市町村の長は、従来当該市町村の地域の属していた関係市町村の固定資産評価審査委員会の委員であつた者のうちから選任したものをもつて当該市町村の固定資産評価審査委員会の委員に充てることができる。
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第四百二十五条（固定資産評価審査委員会の委員の兼職禁止等）
A member of the fixed asset valuation review board must not concurrently hold any of the following offices:
固定資産評価審査委員会の委員は、次に掲げる職を兼ねることができない。
a member of the National Diet or a member of the assembly of a local government;
国会議員及び地方団体の議会の議員
a member of an agricultural committee;
農業委員会の委員
a fixed asset valuer.
固定資産評価員
A member of the fixed asset valuation review board cannot be a person who undertakes contracts with the municipality or who undertakes contracts, in relation to a business whose expenses are borne by the municipality, with the mayor of the municipality or a person delegated by the mayor, or the manager of such a person, or an unlimited liability partner, director, executive officer or company auditor, or person equivalent thereto, manager or liquidator of a corporation that principally engages in the same acts.
固定資産評価審査委員会の委員は、当該市町村に対して請負をし、又は当該市町村において経費を負担する事業について当該市町村の長若しくは当該市町村の長の委任を受けた者に対して請負をする者及びその支配人又は主として同一の行為をする法人の無限責任社員、取締役、執行役若しくは監査役又はこれらに準ずべき者、支配人及び清算人であることができない。
Article 426Disqualifications of Members of the Fixed Asset Valuation Review Board
第四百二十六条（固定資産評価審査委員会の委員の欠格事項）
A person who falls under any of the following items cannot be a member of the fixed asset valuation review board:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、固定資産評価審査委員会の委員であることができない。
a bankrupt who has not had rights restored;
破産者で復権を得ない者
a person who has committed an offense in connection with the duties of a member of the fixed asset valuation review board and been sentenced.
固定資産評価審査委員会の委員の職務に関して罪を犯し刑に処せられた者
a person, other than the person prescribed in the preceding item, who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment and for whom two years have not elapsed since the completion of its execution or since the person ceased to be subject to its execution;
前号に規定する者を除くほか、拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられた者であつてその執行を終わつてから、又は執行を受けることがなくなつてから、二年を経過しない者
a national public employee or an employee of a local government who has been subject to a disposition of disciplinary dismissal and for whom two years have not elapsed from the date of that disposition.
国家公務員又は地方公共団体の職員で、懲戒免職の処分を受け、当該処分の日から二年を経過しない者
local governmentmachine translation
「地方団体」
A prefecture (道府県) or a municipality (市町村).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
head of a local governmentmachine translation
「地方団体の長」
The governor of a prefecture (道府県知事) or the mayor of a municipality (市町村長).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
base-year pricemachine translation
「基準年度の価格」
The value of a piece of land or a house on the assessment date (賦課期日) of a base fiscal year (基準年度), the year in which fixed assets are revalued every three years, as registered in the land or house tax ledger (課税台帳); it is the fixed assets tax (固定資産税) base for that year.
Short name set inArticle 349, paragraph (1)
pricemachine translation
「価格」
For land or a building (家屋), its price on the assessment date (賦課期日) of the base year (基準年度) registered in the land or building tax ledgers (土地課税台帳等, 家屋課税台帳等), or the price set by comparison with it under the provisos and paragraphs of Article 349 that Article 349-3, paragraph 9 lists; for depreciable assets (償却資産), its price on the assessment date registered in the depreciable assets tax ledger (償却資産課税台帳).
Defined inArticle 349-3, paragraph (9)
comparison-based pricemachine translation
「比準価格」
A collective name for, for land and houses, the value as of the assessment date of the base year (基準年度) or a value that the proviso to Article 349, paragraph 2, the proviso to paragraph 3, paragraph 4, the proviso to paragraph 5 or paragraph 6 treats as comparable to it.
Short name set inArticle 368, paragraph (1)
fixed asset valuation standardsmachine translation
「固定資産評価基準」
The standards for valuing fixed assets (固定資産) and the method and procedure for carrying out valuations, which the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (総務大臣) sets and publishes by public notice (告示).
Short name set inArticle 388, paragraph (1)
land price, etc. inspection registermachine translation
「土地価格等縦覧帳簿」
The register the mayor of the municipality (市町村長) prepares, as a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令) provides, listing for each piece of land entered in the land tax ledgers, etc. (土地課税台帳等) on which fixed assets tax (固定資産税) can be levied its location, lot number, land category, area and that year's value for fixed assets tax.
Short name set inArticle 415, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 415, paragraph (2); Article 416, paragraphs (1) and (2); and Article 419, paragraphs (4) to (7)
house price, etc. inspection registermachine translation
「家屋価格等縦覧帳簿」
The book a mayor must prepare by 31 March each year, as an Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省令) provides, listing for each house on the house tax ledgers (家屋課税台帳等) that can be subject to fixed assets tax (固定資産税) its location, house number, kind, structure, floor area and value for that year's tax, which is made available for inspection (縦覧).
Short name set inArticle 415, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 415, paragraph (2); Article 416, paragraphs (1) and (2); and Article 419, paragraphs (4) to (7)
landmachine translation
「土地」
Rice paddies, upland fields, building land, salt fields, mineral spring sites (鉱泉地), ponds and marshes, forests, pastures, wilderness (原野) and any other land, for the special land holding tax (特別土地保有税).
Defined inArticle 585, paragraph (2)
ownermachine translation
「所有者」
In Article 702, paragraph 1 on city planning tax (都市計画税), the person who is treated as, or deemed to be, the owner of the land or house for fixed assets tax (固定資産税) under Article 343 (other than its paragraphs 3, 9 and 10).
Defined inArticle 702, paragraph (2)
company auditor
監査役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)), whose job is to audit how the directors carry out their duties and to write an audit report on it (Article 381, paragraph (1)). Not an outside accountant — that is the financial auditor (会計監査人) — and not a director: a company auditor may not also be a director or employee of the company or its subsidiaries (Article 335, paragraph (2)). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within four years of election (Article 336, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 329, 335, 336, 381 as a reference.
the Diet
国会
Japan's parliament, and under Article 41 the only body that can make an Act (法律). It has two chambers, the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, both made up of elected members (Articles 42 and 43). It designates the Prime Minister, approves the budget and treaties, and can start the process of amending the Constitution. A Cabinet Order (政令) or Ministerial Order (省令) may impose a duty or a penalty only where an Act the Diet passed says it may.
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 41, 42, 43 and Wikipedia: National Diet as a reference.
director
取締役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)). Every stock company has at least one (Article 326, paragraph (1)). Where there is no board of directors, the directors run the company's business unless the articles of incorporation say otherwise (Article 348, paragraph (1)), and each of them represents it unless the company has chosen representative directors (代表取締役) or others to do that (Article 349, paragraphs (1) and (3)). Where there is a board (取締役会, board of directors), the directors are its members, and the board decides the business and normally chooses the representative directors from among them (Article 362). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within two years of election (Article 332, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 326, 329, 332, 348, 349, 362 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.
Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance
条例
A rule a local government makes for itself: a prefecture (都道府県), a city, town or village (市町村), or one of Tokyo's special wards (特別区) (Local Autonomy Act, Articles 1-3, 281 and 283). Its assembly (議会), whose members the residents elect, passes it (Articles 89 and 96, paragraph (1), item (i)), and its head — the governor or the mayor (Article 139) — promulgates it, that is, makes it public so that it can take effect (Article 16). The Constitution lets local governments make them within the limits of Acts (Constitution, Article 94), and one may not go against the national laws and regulations (法令), such as Acts, Cabinet Orders (政令) and Ministerial Orders (省令) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 14, paragraph (1)). Unless national laws and regulations provide otherwise, a local government can impose a duty or restrict a right only by one of these (Article 14, paragraph (2)), and it may write into one penalties for breaking it, within limits the Local Autonomy Act sets (Article 14, paragraph (3)). It is made for that local government's own affairs (Article 2, paragraph (2) and Article 14, paragraph (1)), so the same matter can be handled differently from one place to the next. It is a local rule, not a national one: an "ordinance" in the name of a national rule, such as an Ordinance for Enforcement of an Act, is usually a Ministerial Order (省令) or another national instrument.
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 94 and Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 1-3, 2, 14, 16, 89, 96, 139, 281, 283 as a reference.
request for review
審査請求
A request to an administrative agency (行政庁) to review a disposition (処分) the person objects to, or, where the person applied for a disposition under a law or regulation and a reasonable time has passed with none made, the agency's failure to act (不作為) (Administrative Complaint Review Act, Articles 2 and 3). Unless an Act, or for a disposition based on a local ordinance (条例) that ordinance, provides otherwise, it is made to the agency that made the disposition or failed to act where that agency has no superior agency or is itself the competent minister (主任の大臣) or the head of certain agencies; where such a minister or head is the agency above it, to that minister or head; and otherwise to its highest superior agency (Article 4). Another Act can set rules of its own for it, naming another body to make it to or another route (Article 1, paragraph (2); Article 4): the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for instance, has a request about a disposition (処分) of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) on a person's status as insured, standard remuneration or insurance benefits, other than a decision on a request to correct the pension insurance register, made to a social insurance examiner (社会保険審査官), and disapplies most of the Administrative Complaint Review Act's rules for it (Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Articles 90, paragraph (1), and 91-2). Under the Administrative Complaint Review Act, a request about a disposition must be made within three months of the day after the person learned of it — or one month after learning of the decision, where a request for re-investigation (再調査の請求) was made first — and within a year of the disposition or that decision, unless there is a justifiable reason (Administrative Complaint Review Act, Article 18, paragraphs (1) and (2)). Making one does not by itself stop the disposition taking effect or being carried out, or the proceedings going on (Article 25, paragraph (1)), but the agency reviewing it can suspend them in whole or in part on the application of the person who made the request — and, where it made the disposition or is the agency above the one that did, of its own motion — and, once the person who made the request has applied, must where that is urgently needed to avoid serious harm, unless that would seriously affect the public welfare or the request appears to have no grounds (Article 25, paragraphs (2) to (4)). The agency reviewing it (審査庁) decides it by a determination (裁決): it dismisses a request that is unlawful, for instance one made too late, rejects one that is groundless, and, where one is well founded, revokes the disposition in whole or in part or changes it — though never to the disadvantage of the person who made the request, and an agency that neither made the disposition nor is above the agency that did cannot change it (Articles 45, paragraphs (1) and (2), 46, paragraph (1), and 48). Where the request is about a de facto act (事実上の行為), the determination instead declares the act unlawful or unjust and orders it abolished in whole or in part or changed, or abolishes or changes it (Article 47). A well-founded request about a failure to act ends instead in a determination declaring the failure unlawful or unjust, and, where the agency finds a disposition should be made, an order to make it or the disposition itself (Article 49, paragraph (3)). Where revoking an unlawful or unjust disposition, or abolishing an unlawful or unjust de facto act, would seriously harm the public interest, the agency can reject the request while declaring in the determination that it is unlawful or unjust (Article 45, paragraph (3)). The determination takes effect when it is served on the person who made the request — or, where someone other than the disposition's addressee made it and the determination revokes or changes the disposition or deals with a de facto act, once it is served on the addressee too — and binds the agencies concerned (Articles 51, paragraph (1), and 52, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Administrative Complaint Review Act, Arts. 1 to 4, 18, 25, 45 to 49, 51, 52 and Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Arts. 90, 91-2 as a reference.