Upon the filing of an action relating to an original administrative disposition or administrative determination that confirms or creates a legal relationship between parties, wherein either party to the legal relationship stands as a defendant pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations, the court is to give notice to the administrative authority that has made that original administrative disposition or administrative determination to that effect.

①A public law-related action that is subject to the statute of limitations prescribed in laws and regulations may be filed even after the expiration of the statute of limitations for filing that action if there are reasonable grounds for failing to meet that statute of limitations, unless otherwise provided for in the laws and regulations.

②The provisions of Article 15 apply mutatis mutandis to a public law-related action that is subject to the statute of limitations for filing an action prescribed in laws and regulations.

①The provisions of Article 23, Article 24, Article 33, paragraph (1), and Article 35 apply mutatis mutandis to public law-related actions, and the provision of Article 23-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the submission of materials that clarify the grounds for the original administrative disposition or administrative determination in a public law-related action.

②The provisions of Article 13 apply mutatis mutandis to the transfer of an action in cases where a public law-related action and an action pertaining to a claim related to the claim that is subject matter of the public law-related action are pending before different courts, and the provisions of Article 16 through Article 19 apply mutatis mutandis to the joinder of these actions.