Article 16Standard Period for Proceedings

The administrative agency that is to become the reviewing agency pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 or the provisions of other laws or Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance (referred to as "administrative agency that is to become the reviewing agency" below) must endeavor to decide a standard period normally necessary between the time when a request for review arrives at their offices and the time when an administrative determination is to be made, and when the standard period has been decided, publicize the standard period by keeping it at the offices of the administrative agency that is to become the reviewing agency and the related administrative agency reaching the disposition (meaning an administrative agency vested with the authority to render a disposition subject to the request for review other than the administrative agency that is to become the reviewing agency; the same applies in the following Article) or by other appropriate methods.