When it is possible to file a request for review for a disposition reached by an administrative agency with an administrative agency other than the administrative agency reaching the disposition, and a law provides that a request for re-investigation may be filed, a person who is dissatisfied with the disposition may file a request for re-investigation with the administrative agency reaching the disposition; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person has filed a request for review pursuant to the provisions of Article 2.
When a person has filed a request for re-investigation pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of the preceding paragraph, the person may not file a request for review until the decision has been made for the request for re-investigation; provided, however, that this does not apply if the case falls under either of the following items:
前項本文の規定により再調査の請求をしたときは、当該再調査の請求についての決定を経た後でなければ、審査請求をすることができない。ただし、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合は、この限りでない。
when the administrative agency reaching the disposition does not make a decision for the request for re-investigation even after three months have passed from the day following the day on which the person filed the request for re-investigation for the disposition (if the person has been ordered to correct a defect pursuant to the provisions of Article 23 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61 following the deemed replacement of terms, the day on which the person corrected the defect);
when there are other legitimate grounds for not going through a decision on a request for a re-investigation.
その他再調査の請求についての決定を経ないことにつき正当な理由がある場合