A person who is dissatisfied with a disposition or other act listed in the following items (hereinafter referred to as a "disposition, etc.") may file a request for examination, within 30 days counting from the day specified in the relevant item, with the head of the public prosecutors office to which the public prosecutor who made the disposition, etc. belongs (in the case where that public prosecutor is a public prosecutor of a local public prosecutors office, the chief prosecutor of the district public prosecutors office corresponding to the district court having jurisdiction over the location of the court corresponding to that office; the same applies hereinafter).
次の各号に掲げる処分その他の行為（以下「処分等」という。）に不服がある者は、当該各号に定める日から起算して三十日以内に、当該処分等をした検察官が所属する検察庁の長（当該検察官が区検察庁の検察官である場合については、その庁の対応する裁判所の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所に対応する地方検察庁の検事正。以下同じ。）に対し、審査の申立てをすることができる。
a decision on erasure, etc., an erasure order, a decision not to permit copying, or a decision under Article 12-2: the day following the day on which the certified copy of the document referred to in Article 20, paragraph (1) was served;
retention under the first sentence of Article 12, or the first sentence of Article 13, paragraph (3) or paragraph (7): the day specified by Ministry of Justice Order;
an act of a public prosecutor relating to procedures under the provisions of this Chapter, other than those listed in the preceding two items, that is specified by Ministry of Justice Order: the day specified by Ministry of Justice Order.
前二号に掲げるもののほか、この章の規定に基づく手続に係る検察官の行為であって法務省令で定めるもの 法務省令で定める日
If there are unavoidable grounds, such as a natural disaster, for not having filed a request for examination within the period under the preceding paragraph, a request for examination may, notwithstanding that paragraph, be filed only within one week counting from the day following the day on which those grounds ceased to exist.
In the case where a public prosecutor has mistakenly advised, as the period within which a request for examination may be filed, a period longer than the statutory period, if a request for examination is filed within the period so advised, that request for examination is deemed to have been filed within the statutory period.
検察官が誤って法定の期間よりも長い期間を審査の申立てをすることができる期間として教示した場合において、その教示された期間内に審査の申立てがされたときは、その審査の申立ては、法定の期間内にされたものとみなす。