Article 2Method and Standards for Preparing a Certificate of Residence by Means of a Magnetic Disk
第二条（住民票を磁気ディスクをもつて調製する場合の方法及び基準）
When the mayor of the municipality (including the head of a special ward; the same applies hereinafter) prepares a certificate of residence by means of a magnetic disk (including any device on which specified matters can be reliably recorded by a method equivalent thereto; the same applies hereinafter) pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Act, this is to be done by operating a computer (including an input/output device; the same applies hereinafter) (including any equipment on which specified matters can be reliably recorded by a method equivalent to a method using a computer; the same applies hereinafter), and the technical standards concerning the methods of recording on a magnetic disk, of using it, and of managing the magnetic disk and the facilities or equipment related thereto are to be specified by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.
市町村長（特別区の区長を含む。以下同じ。）は、法第六条第三項の規定により住民票を磁気ディスク（これに準ずる方法により一定の事項を確実に記録しておくことができる物を含む。以下同じ。）をもつて調製する場合には、電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。以下同じ。）（電子計算機による方法に準ずる方法により一定の事項を確実に記録しておくことができる機器を含む。以下同じ。）の操作によるものとし、磁気ディスクへの記録、その利用並びに磁気ディスク及びこれに関連する施設又は設備の管理の方法に関する技術的基準については、総務大臣が定める。
第三条（国民健康保険の被保険者の資格に関する住民票の記載事項）
The matters concerning qualification as an insured person under National Health Insurance prescribed in Article 7, item (x) of the Act that are specified by Cabinet Order are the date on which the person acquired or lost that qualification.
法第七条第十号に規定する国民健康保険の被保険者の資格に関する事項で政令で定めるものは、その資格を取得し、又は喪失した年月日とする。
第三条の二（後期高齢者医療の被保険者の資格に関する住民票の記載事項）
The matters concerning qualification as an insured person under latter-stage elderly medical care prescribed in Article 7, item (x)-2 of the Act that are specified by Cabinet Order are the date on which the person acquired or lost that qualification.
法第七条第十号の二に規定する後期高齢者医療の被保険者の資格に関する事項で政令で定めるものは、その資格を取得し、又は喪失した年月日とする。
第三条の三（介護保険の被保険者の資格に関する住民票の記載事項）
The matters concerning qualification as an insured person under Long-Term Care Insurance prescribed in Article 7, item (x)-3 of the Act that are specified by Cabinet Order are the date on which the person became, or ceased to be, an insured person under Long-Term Care Insurance.
法第七条第十号の三に規定する介護保険の被保険者の資格に関する事項で政令で定めるものは、介護保険の被保険者となり、又は介護保険の被保険者でなくなつた年月日とする。
第四条（国民年金の被保険者の範囲に関する法令の規定）
The provisions of laws and regulations specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 7, item (xi) of the Act are the provisions of Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act (Act No. 141 of 1959).
法第七条第十一号に規定する政令で定める法令の規定は、国民年金法（昭和三十四年法律第百四十一号）附則第五条の規定とする。
第五条（国民年金の被保険者の資格に関する住民票の記載事項）
The matters concerning qualification as an insured person under National Pension prescribed in Article 7, item (xi) of the Act that are specified by Cabinet Order are the following matters:
法第七条第十一号に規定する国民年金の被保険者の資格に関する事項で政令で定めるものは、次に掲げる事項とする。
The date on which the person became, or ceased to be, an insured person under National Pension;
国民年金の被保険者となり、又は国民年金の被保険者でなくなつた年月日
The category of insured person under National Pension (meaning the distinction as to whether the person is a Category I Insured Person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) of the National Pension Act or an insured person under National Pension pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations prescribed in the preceding Article; the same applies hereinafter) and the date on which it was changed; and
国民年金の被保険者の種別（国民年金法第七条第一項第一号に規定する第一号被保険者又は前条に規定する法令の規定による国民年金の被保険者のいずれであるかの区別をいう。以下同じ。）及びその変更があつた年月日
The Basic Pension Number (meaning the Basic Pension Number prescribed in Article 14 of the National Pension Act; the same applies hereinafter).
基礎年金番号（国民年金法第十四条に規定する基礎年金番号をいう。以下同じ。）
第六条（児童手当の支給を受けている者の受給資格に関する住民票の記載事項）
The matters concerning the qualification to receive of a person receiving the Child Allowance prescribed in Article 7, item (xi)-2 of the Act that are specified by Cabinet Order are the year and month in which payment of the Child Allowance began or ended.
法第七条第十一号の二に規定する児童手当の支給を受けている者の受給資格に関する事項で政令で定めるものは、児童手当の支給が始まり、又は終わつた年月とする。
Article 6-2Matters Specified by Cabinet Order under Article 7, item (xiv) of the Act
第六条の二（法第七条第十四号の政令で定める事項）
The matters specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 7, item (xiv) of the Act are, among matters contributing to the promotion of the welfare of residents, those that the mayor of the municipality finds necessary to state in a certificate of residence in order to manage and execute administrative affairs concerning residents.
法第七条第十四号に規定する政令で定める事項は、住民の福祉の増進に資する事項のうち、市町村長が住民に関する事務を管理し及び執行するために住民票に記載することが必要であると認めるものとする。
Article 7Entry in a Certificate of Residence
第七条（住民票の記載）
When a person has newly set an address within the area of a municipality (including a special ward; the same applies hereinafter), or there is any other person who is to be newly recorded in the basic resident register of that municipality, the mayor of the municipality must, except in the case provided for in the following paragraph, prepare a certificate of residence for that person.
市町村長は、新たに市町村（特別区を含む。以下同じ。）の区域内に住所を定めた者その他新たにその市町村の住民基本台帳に記録されるべき者があるときは、次項に定める場合を除き、その者の住民票を作成しなければならない。
When, after preparing a certificate of residence by household unit for a household, there is a person who is to be newly recorded in the basic resident register of that municipality and who has come to belong to that household (including a person who already belonged to that household and has newly become subject to the application of the Act), the mayor of the municipality must make an entry concerning that person in that certificate of residence (or, for a certificate of residence prepared by means of a magnetic disk pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Act, a record; the same applies hereinafter).
When a person recorded in the basic resident register of a municipality has moved out or died, or any other reason has arisen for removing that person from the record of the basic resident register of that municipality, the mayor of the municipality must delete the certificate of residence of that person (or, where a certificate of residence by household unit had been prepared for the household to which that person belonged, all or part of that certificate of residence).
市町村長は、その市町村の住民基本台帳に記録されている者が転出をし、又は死亡したときその他その者についてその市町村の住民基本台帳の記録から除くべき事由が生じたときは、その者の住民票（その者が属していた世帯について世帯を単位とする住民票が作成されていた場合にあつては、その住民票の全部又は一部）を消除しなければならない。
第八条の二（日本の国籍の取得又は喪失による住民票の記載及び消除）
When a person who does not have Japanese nationality and who is recorded in the basic resident register of the municipality has acquired Japanese nationality, the mayor of the municipality must prepare a certificate of residence stating the matters listed in the items of Article 7 of the Act for that person (referred to as a "certificate of residence as a Japanese resident" in the following paragraph), or make an entry in the certificate of residence of the household to which that person belongs of the matters listed in the items of that Article concerning that person, and at the same time delete the certificate of residence stating the matters to be entered for that person pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-45 of the Act (referred to as a "certificate of residence as a foreign resident" in the following paragraph) (or, where a certificate of residence by household unit has been prepared for the household to which that person belongs, all or part of that certificate of residence).
When a person who has Japanese nationality and who is recorded in the basic resident register of the municipality has lost Japanese nationality, the mayor of the municipality must prepare a certificate of residence as a foreign resident for that person, or make an entry in the certificate of residence of the household to which that person belongs of the matters to be entered concerning that person pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-45 of the Act, and at the same time delete the certificate of residence as a Japanese resident of that person (or, where a certificate of residence by household unit has been prepared for the household to which that person belongs, all or part of that certificate of residence).
市町村長は、その市町村の住民基本台帳に記録されている日本の国籍を有する者が日本の国籍を失つたときは、その者の外国人住民としての住民票を作成し、又はその属する世帯の住民票にその者に関する法第三十条の四十五の規定により記載をするものとされる事項の記載をするとともに、その者の日本人住民としての住民票（その者が属する世帯について世帯を単位とする住民票が作成されている場合にあつては、その住民票の全部又は一部）の消除をしなければならない。
When there has been a change in the matters stated in a certificate of residence (excluding the resident record code), the mayor of the municipality must make an amendment of an entry in the certificate of residence.
市町村長は、住民票に記載されている事項（住民票コードを除く。）に変更があつたときは、その住民票の記載の修正をしなければならない。
第十条（転居又は世帯変更による住民票の記載及び消除）
When there is a person who has moved within a municipality or who has changed the household to which the person belongs within the area of the municipality, and it is necessary in addition to what is provided for in the preceding Article, the mayor of the municipality must prepare a certificate of residence for that person, or make an entry concerning that person in the certificate of residence of the household to which the person has come to belong, and at the same time delete the certificate of residence of that person (or, where a certificate of residence by household unit had been prepared for the household to which the person belonged, all or part of that certificate of residence).
市町村長は、転居をし、又はその市町村の区域内においてその属する世帯を変更した者がある場合において、前条の規定によるほか必要があるときは、その者の住民票を作成し、又はその属することとなつた世帯の住民票にその者に関する記載をするとともに、その者の住民票（その者が属していた世帯について世帯を単位とする住民票が作成されていた場合にあつては、その住民票の全部又は一部）の消除をしなければならない。
Article 11Entry in the Certificate of Residence, etc. Based on Notification
第十一条（届出に基づく住民票の記載等）
When a notification has been made under the provisions of Chapter IV or Chapter IV-4 of the Act, the mayor of the municipality must examine whether the contents of the notification are true, and make an entry, deletion, or amendment of an entry in a certificate of residence under the provisions of Article 7 through the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "entry, etc. in a certificate of residence").
市町村長は、法第四章又は第四章の四の規定による届出があつたときは、当該届出の内容が事実であるかどうかを審査して、第七条から前条までの規定による住民票の記載、消除又は記載の修正（以下「住民票の記載等」という。）を行わなければならない。
Article 12Entry in the Certificate of Residence, etc. Ex Officio
第十二条（職権による住民票の記載等）
In a case where an entry, etc. in a certificate of residence should be made based on a notification under the provisions of Chapter IV or Chapter IV-4 of the Act, when the mayor of the municipality learns that there has been no such notification, the mayor must confirm the facts on which that entry, etc. in a certificate of residence should be made, and make the entry, etc. in a certificate of residence under the provisions of Articles 7 through 10 ex officio.
市町村長は、法第四章又は第四章の四の規定による届出に基づき住民票の記載等をすべき場合において、当該届出がないことを知つたときは、当該住民票の記載等をすべき事実を確認して、職権で、第七条から第十条までの規定による住民票の記載等をしなければならない。
In the following cases, if a reason for making an entry, etc. in a certificate of residence under the provisions of Articles 7 through 10 applies, the mayor of the municipality must make the entry, etc. in a certificate of residence under those provisions ex officio:
市町村長は、次に掲げる場合において、第七条から第十条までの規定により住民票の記載等をすべき事由に該当するときは、職権で、これらの規定による住民票の記載等をしなければならない。
When a notification form, written application, or other document concerning the family register has been accepted, or an entry or record in the family register has been made ex officio, or when a notification under the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (2) of the Act has been received;
戸籍に関する届書、申請書その他の書類を受理し、若しくは職権で戸籍の記載若しくは記録をしたとき、又は法第九条第二項の規定による通知を受けたとき。
When an Individual Number has been designated under the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013; referred to as the "Number Use Act" in Article 24-2, paragraph (1), item (iii) and paragraph (2), item (iii));
行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律（平成二十五年法律第二十七号。第二十四条の二第一項第三号及び第二項第三号において「番号利用法」という。）第七条第一項又は第二項の規定による個人番号の指定をしたとき。
When a notification under the provisions of Article 10 of the Act has been received;
法第十条の規定による通知を受けたとき。
When a notification under the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) or (5) of the National Health Insurance Act (Act No. 192 of 1958) has been accepted (excluding when the notification is deemed to have been made under the provisions of paragraph (6) of that Article), or when facts concerning the acquisition or loss of qualification as an insured person under National Health Insurance have otherwise been confirmed;
国民健康保険法（昭和三十三年法律第百九十二号）第九条第一項又は第五項の規定による届出を受理したとき（同条第六項の規定により届出があつたものとみなされるときを除く。）その他国民健康保険の被保険者の資格の取得又は喪失に関する事実を確認したとき。
When facts concerning the acquisition or loss of qualification as an insured person under latter-stage elderly medical care have been confirmed;
後期高齢者医療の被保険者の資格の取得又は喪失に関する事実を確認したとき。
When a notification under the provisions of the main clause of Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (Act No. 123 of 1997) has been accepted (excluding when the notification is deemed to have been made under the provisions of paragraph (5) of that Article), or when the fact that a person has become, or ceased to be, an insured person under Long-Term Care Insurance has otherwise been confirmed;
介護保険法（平成九年法律第百二十三号）第十二条第一項本文の規定による届出を受理したとき（同条第五項の規定により届出があつたものとみなされるときを除く。）その他介護保険の被保険者となり、又は介護保険の被保険者でなくなつた事実を確認したとき。
When a notification under the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 105, paragraph (4) of the National Pension Act has been accepted (excluding when the notification is deemed to have been made under the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (3) of that Act), when a disposition concerning qualification as an insured person under National Pension has been made, or when the fact that a person has become, or ceased to be, an insured person under National Pension, or a fact concerning a change in the category of insured person under National Pension, has otherwise been confirmed;
国民年金法第十二条第一項若しくは第二項又は第百五条第四項の規定による届出を受理したとき（同法第十二条第三項の規定により届出があつたものとみなされるときを除く。）、国民年金の被保険者の資格に関する処分があつたときその他国民年金の被保険者となり、若しくは国民年金の被保険者でなくなつた事実又は国民年金の被保険者の種別の変更に関する事実を確認したとき。
When a recognition under the provisions of Article 7 of the Child Allowance Act (Act No. 73 of 1971) has been made, or when facts concerning the extinction of the reason for paying the Child Allowance have been confirmed;
児童手当法（昭和四十六年法律第七十三号）第七条の規定による認定をしたとき、又は児童手当を支給すべき事由の消滅に関する事実を確認したとき。
When the contents of a ruling or decision on any of the following appeals, or of any other decision, or of a judgment in a lawsuit, differ from the record of the basic resident register:
次に掲げる不服申立てについての裁決若しくは決定その他決定又は訴訟の判決の内容が住民基本台帳の記録と異なるとき。
A ruling on a request for review concerning a disposition made by the mayor of the municipality under the provisions of the Act, or a final and binding judgment in a lawsuit concerning that disposition;
法の規定により市町村長がした処分に係る審査請求についての裁決又は当該処分についての訴訟の確定判決
A decision concerning the determination of the address of a resident under the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (2) of the Act, or a final and binding judgment in a lawsuit under the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article;
A decision on an objection filed under the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (2) of the Public Offices Election Act (Act No. 100 of 1950), or a final and binding judgment in a lawsuit under the provisions of Article 25 of that Act;
公職選挙法（昭和二十五年法律第百号）第二十四条第二項の規定による異議の申出についての決定又は同法第二十五条の規定による訴訟の確定判決
A ruling on a request for review prescribed in Article 19 of the Local Tax Act (Act No. 226 of 1950), or a final and binding judgment in a lawsuit concerning a disposition under that Article;
地方税法（昭和二十五年法律第二百二十六号）第十九条に規定する審査請求についての裁決又は同条の処分についての訴訟の確定判決
A ruling on a request for review under the provisions of Article 91, paragraph (1) of the National Health Insurance Act, or a final and binding judgment in a lawsuit concerning a disposition under that paragraph;
国民健康保険法第九十一条第一項の規定による審査請求についての裁決又は同項の処分についての訴訟の確定判決
A ruling on a request for review under the provisions of Article 128, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (Act No. 80 of 1982), or a final and binding judgment in a lawsuit concerning a disposition under that paragraph;
高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律（昭和五十七年法律第八十号）第百二十八条第一項の規定による審査請求についての裁決又は同項の処分についての訴訟の確定判決
A ruling on a request for review under the provisions of Article 183, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, or a final and binding judgment in a lawsuit concerning a disposition under that paragraph;
介護保険法第百八十三条第一項の規定による審査請求についての裁決又は同項の処分についての訴訟の確定判決
A decision on a request for review or a ruling on a request for re-examination under the provisions of Article 101, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act, or a final and binding judgment in a lawsuit concerning a disposition under that paragraph;
国民年金法第百一条第一項の規定による審査請求についての決定若しくは再審査請求についての裁決又は同項の処分についての訴訟の確定判決
When there has been a change in the indication of an address accompanying a change in an administrative division, county, ward, or town or section within a municipality, or in the name of any of these, a change in a lot number, or the implementation or change of an indication of residential address under the provisions of Article 3, paragraphs (1) and (2) or Article 4 of the Act on Indication of Residential Address (Act No. 119 of 1962).
行政区画、郡、区、市町村内の町若しくは字若しくはこれらの名称の変更、地番の変更又は住居表示に関する法律（昭和三十七年法律第百十九号）第三条第一項及び第二項若しくは第四条の規定による住居表示の実施若しくは変更に伴い住所の表示の変更があつたとき。
When the mayor of the municipality learns that there is an omission or erroneous entry in the basic resident register, or that there is an error in an entry in a certificate of residence (excluding an error in an entry concerning the resident record code) or an omission in an entry (excluding an omission in an entry concerning the resident record code), the mayor must confirm the fact and make the entry, etc. in a certificate of residence ex officio.
市町村長は、住民基本台帳に脱漏若しくは誤載があり、又は住民票に誤記（住民票コードに係る誤記を除く。）若しくは記載漏れ（住民票コードに係る記載漏れを除く。）があることを知つたときは、当該事実を確認して、職権で、住民票の記載等をしなければならない。
When the mayor of the municipality has made an entry, etc. in a certificate of residence under the provisions of paragraph (1), the mayor must notify the person concerned with that entry, etc. in a certificate of residence to that effect; in this case, if the address and residence of the person who is to receive the notification are not clear, or the mayor otherwise finds it difficult to give the notification, the mayor may, in lieu of the notification, give public notice to that effect.
category of insured person under National Pensionmachine translation
「国民年金の被保険者の種別」
Whether a person insured under the National Pension (国民年金) is a category 1 insured person (第一号被保険者) under Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) of the National Pension Act or a voluntarily insured person under Article 5 of the original supplementary provisions (附則) of that Act, the provision Article 4 names.
Defined inArticle 5, paragraph (1), item (ii)
Basic Pension Numbermachine translation
「基礎年金番号」
The Basic Pension Number provided for in Article 14 of the National Pension Act: the symbols and numbers, set by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令), used to carry out the work of the government-run pension programs and recorded for each insured person in the National Pension register.
Defined inArticle 5, paragraph (1), item (iii)
certificate of residence as a foreign residentmachine translation
「外国人住民としての住民票」
In Article 8-2, a certificate of residence (住民票) carrying the entries Article 30-45 of the Residential Basic Book Act requires for a foreign resident (外国人住民), which the mayor deletes when the person acquires Japanese nationality and makes when a Japanese national loses it.
Short name set inArticle 8-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 8-2, paragraph (2)
certificate of residence as a Japanese residentmachine translation
「日本人住民としての住民票」
In Article 8-2, a certificate of residence (住民票) carrying the entries Article 7 of the Residential Basic Book Act lists, which the mayor makes when a foreign resident (外国人住民) acquires Japanese nationality and deletes when the person loses it.
Short name set inArticle 8-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 8-2, paragraph (2)
entry, etc. in a certificate of residencemachine translation
「住民票の記載等」
Making an entry in a certificate of residence (住民票), deleting it, or correcting an entry in it.
Short name set inArticle 11, paragraph (1)
Number Use Actmachine translation
「番号利用法」
Short name for the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013).
Short name set inArticle 12, paragraph (2), item (i-2)· applies only in this provision and in Article 24-2, paragraph (1), item (iii); and Article 24-2, paragraph (2), item (iii)
family register
戸籍
The public record of who a person is related to by birth, marriage and adoption. One is made for each married couple and their children who share their surname, where they set their registered domicile (本籍); when a new register is made for a person married to a foreign national (外国人) or with no spouse, it is made for that person and their children who share their surname (Family Register Act, Article 6). The mayor of the municipality (in Tokyo's special wards and the wards of designated cities, the ward mayor) administers this work unless the Act provides otherwise (Articles 1 and 4). Besides the registered domicile, it records for each person their name and its reading, date of birth, why and when they entered the register, their parents and, for an adopted child, their adoptive parents, whether they are husband and wife, and the register they came from, among other things (Article 13). Entries are made on a notification (届出) — of a birth, a marriage, a divorce or a death, for example (Articles 49, 74, 76 and 86) — or on a report, an application, a court decision and a few other grounds (Article 15). When a marriage between a Japanese national and a foreign national is notified, a new family register is made for the Japanese national, not for the couple, unless the Japanese national already heads a register of their own (Article 6 and Article 16, paragraph (3)). A foreign national who lives in a municipality as a mid- to long-term resident (中長期在留者), a special permanent resident (特別永住者) or in one of a few other categories is recorded in that municipality's resident record (住民票): instead of the family register entry a Japanese resident's record carries, it states their nationality, and for a mid- to long-term resident their status of residence (在留資格) and period of stay (Residential Basic Book Act, Article 30-45). A foreign national in none of those categories is not recorded there (Article 39).
Written by AI using Family Register Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16, 49, 74, 76, 86 and Residential Basic Book Act, Arts. 7, 30-45, 39 as a reference.
request for re-examination
再審査請求
A further request, by a person who objects to the determination (裁決) on a request for review (審査請求) of a disposition (処分), that can be made only where an Act provides for one against that disposition (Administrative Complaint Review Act, Article 6, paragraph (1)). It is made to the administrative agency (行政庁) that Act names, against either the original determination (原裁決) or the disposition itself (paragraph (2)): the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for instance, has it made to the Social Insurance Examination Committee (社会保険審査会) against a social insurance examiner's (社会保険審査官) decision, and disapplies the Administrative Complaint Review Act's rules on it (Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Articles 90, paragraph (1), and 91-2). Another Act can set rules of its own for it in this way (Administrative Complaint Review Act, Article 1, paragraph (2)). Under the Administrative Complaint Review Act, it must be made within one month of the day after the person learned of the original determination and within a year of it, unless there is a justifiable reason (Article 62). The agency reviewing it decides it by a determination: it dismisses a request that is unlawful, for instance one made too late; rejects one that is groundless, or one where the original determination turned down the request for review wrongly but the disposition was neither unlawful nor unjust; and, where one is well founded, revokes the original determination or the disposition in whole or in part — unless revoking it, or abolishing a de facto act, would seriously harm the public interest, when the agency can reject the request while declaring the determination or disposition unlawful or unjust (Articles 64, paragraphs (1) to (4), and 65, paragraph (1)). 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 the agency that made the disposition to abolish it in whole or in part (Article 65, paragraph (2)). An agency making a determination against which this request can be made must say so in it, naming the agency to make it to and the time allowed (Article 50, paragraph (3)).
Written by AI using Administrative Complaint Review Act, Arts. 1, 6, 50, 62, 64, 65 and Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Arts. 90, 91-2 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.
special ward
特別区
A ward (区) of a metropolis (都) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 281, paragraph (1)). Today the only special wards are the 23 wards of Tokyo. A special ward is a basic local government in its own right: it does, in general, the work a city, town or village (市町村) does elsewhere, apart from what the metropolis does across all the wards as one (Article 281-2, paragraph (2)). Where a law or order gives a city (市) work to do, its provisions on that work also apply to a special ward, for the work the ward does (Article 281, paragraph (2), and Article 283, paragraph (2)); a Cabinet Order (政令) can make special rules where they cannot apply as they stand (Article 283, paragraph (3)).
Written by AI using Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 281, 281-2, 283 as a reference.