Article 46Approval of Requests for Review of Dispositions

①When there are grounds for a request for review of a disposition (excluding de facto acts; the same applies below in this Article and Article 48) (excluding the cases to which the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply), the reviewing agency is to revoke in full or in part the disposition, or change the disposition by an administrative determination; provided, however, that when the reviewing agency is neither the higher administrative agency of the administrative agency reaching the disposition nor the administrative agency reaching the disposition, the reviewing agency may not change the disposition.

②When revoking a disposition to dismiss or reject in full or in part an application based on laws and regulations pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the reviewing agency stated in the following items is to take the measures specified in each of those items when it finds that a certain disposition should be rendered for the application:

③When there are provisions providing that a certain disposition prescribed in the preceding paragraph should go through deliberations prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1), item (i), and the reviewing agency finds it necessary for the purpose of taking the measures specified in the items of the preceding paragraph, the reviewing agency may go through the deliberations at the Council, etc. concerning the provisions.

④In addition to the cases in which there are provisions prescribed in the preceding paragraph, when other laws and regulations provide that consultation with the relevant administrative agencies or other procedures should be taken for a certain disposition prescribed in paragraph (2), and the reviewing agency finds it necessary for the purpose of taking the measures specified in the items of that paragraph, the reviewing agency may conduct those procedures.