第二十五条の三（複写許可に係る電磁的記録の複写をしない場合の措置）
With respect to an electronic or magnetic record the copying of which has been permitted pursuant to Article 18-2, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if the person permitted to copy it does not copy it by the date on which six months have elapsed counting from the date on which copying was permitted, the public prosecutor is not required to have it copied.
Section 5 Filing of Complaints, etc.
第五節 不服申立て等
Article 26Request for Examination to the Head of a Public Prosecutors Office
第二十六条（検察庁の長に対する審査の申立て）
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。
Article 27Submission of a Written Request for Examination
第二十七条（審査申立書の提出）
A request for examination under the preceding Article must be filed by submitting a written request for examination, as provided by Ministry of Justice Order.
前条の規定による審査の申立ては、法務省令で定めるところにより、審査申立書を提出してしなければならない。
The following matters must be stated in the written request for examination referred to in the preceding paragraph:
前項の審査申立書には、次に掲げる事項を記載しなければならない。
the content of the disposition, etc. to which the request for examination relates;
審査の申立てに係る処分等の内容
the purport of and reasons for the request for examination; and
審査の申立ての趣旨及び理由
other particulars provided for by Ministry of Justice Order.
その他法務省令で定める事項
Article 28Method of Proceedings
第二十八条（審理の方式）
Proceedings on a request for examination are to be conducted in writing.
審査の申立ての審理は、書面による。
第二十九条（裁決）
With respect to a request for examination under Article 26, the head of the public prosecutors office must make the determination specified in the relevant item, according to the category of cases listed in the following items:
検察庁の長は、第二十六条の規定による審査の申立てについては、次の各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める裁決をしなければならない。
in the case where the request for examination was filed after the period within which a request for examination may be filed, as prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (1), has elapsed, or is otherwise unlawful: a determination dismissing the request for examination;
当該審査の申立てが第二十六条第一項に規定する審査の申立てをすることができる期間が経過した後にされたものである場合その他不適法である場合 当該審査の申立てを却下する裁決
in the case where the request for examination is groundless: a determination rejecting the request for examination;
当該審査の申立てに理由がない場合 当該審査の申立てを棄却する裁決
in the case where the disposition, etc. to which the request for examination relates is other than a de facto act, and the request for examination is well-founded: a determination revoking or modifying all or part of the disposition, etc. to which the request for examination relates; and
当該審査の申立てに係る処分等が事実上の行為以外のものである場合において、当該審査の申立てに理由があるとき 当該審査の申立てに係る処分等の全部又は一部を取り消し、又は変更する裁決
in the case where the disposition, etc. to which the request for examination relates is a de facto act made by a public prosecutor, and the request for examination is well-founded: a determination declaring that all or part of the de facto act is unlawful and, at the same time, ordering the public prosecutor who performed the de facto act to abolish or modify all or part of the de facto act (in the case where the de facto act was performed by the head of the public prosecutors office, a determination declaring that all or part of the de facto act is unlawful and, at the same time, abolishing or modifying all or part of the de facto act).
当該審査の申立てに係る処分等が検察官のした事実上の行為である場合において、当該審査の申立てに理由があるとき 当該事実上の行為の全部又は一部が違法である旨を宣言するとともに、当該事実上の行為をした検察官に対し、当該事実上の行為の全部又は一部を撤廃し、又は変更すべき旨を命ずる裁決（当該事実上の行為が検察庁の長のしたものである場合にあっては、当該事実上の行為の全部又は一部が違法である旨を宣言するとともに、当該事実上の行為の全部又は一部を撤廃し、又は変更する裁決）
In a determination provided for in item (iii) or (iv) of the preceding paragraph, the head of the public prosecutors office may not modify the disposition, etc. to the detriment of the requestor for examination, nor order or effect a modification of the de facto act to the detriment of the requestor for examination.
Article 30Form of Determinations, etc.
第三十条（裁決の方式等）
A determination provided for in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article must be made in writing.
前条第一項各号に定める裁決は、書面でしなければならない。
The head of the public prosecutors office must serve a certified copy of the written determination on the requestor for examination.
検察庁の長は、審査申立人に裁決書の謄本を送達しなければならない。
The provisions of Article 20, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to service under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (2)", the phrases "the document referred to in paragraph (1)" and "the document" with "the written determination", "public prosecutor" with "head of the public prosecutors office", and "under the provisions of the preceding paragraph" with "under the provisions of that paragraph".
The provisions of Articles 10 through 15, Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 21, Article 22, paragraphs (1) and (5), Article 23, Article 25, paragraphs (1) and (2) and paragraphs (4) through (7), Articles 26 through 28, Article 30, paragraphs (2) and (3), Articles 32 through 36, Article 38, paragraphs (1) through (5), Article 39, Article 51, paragraph (4), Article 52, paragraph (1), and Article 53 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014) apply mutatis mutandis to a request for examination under Article 26. In this case, the words in the middle column of the following table that are set out in the provisions of that Act in the left column of the table are deemed to be replaced with the words set out respectively in the right column.
| Provisions of the Administrative Complaint Review Act to be read as replaced | Words to be replaced | Replacing words |
| Article 11, paragraph (2) | a person who has been designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as a "review officer") | the head of the public prosecutors office with which a request for examination under Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles has been filed (hereinafter referred to as the "reviewing agency") |
| Article 13, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 28, Article 30, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 32, paragraph (3), Articles 33 through 36, Article 38, paragraphs (1) through (3) and paragraph (5), and Article 39 | review officer | reviewing agency |
| Article 14 | the written request for review prescribed in Article 19 or the record of oral statement of request for review prescribed in Article 21, paragraph (2) | the written request for examination |
| Article 18, paragraph (3) | the written request for review prescribed in the following Article | the written request for examination |
| the period prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs (hereinafter referred to as the "period for filing a request for review") | the period prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles | |
| Article 21, paragraph (1) | submit a written request for review, or state to the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition the matters prescribed in Article 19, paragraphs (2) through (5) | submit a written request for examination |
| Article 21, paragraph (2) | written request for review or record of oral statement of request for review (meaning a document in which the content of a statement is recorded pursuant to the latter sentence of the preceding Article; the same applies in Article 29, paragraph (1) and Article 55) | written request for examination |
| Article 21, paragraph (3) | submitted a written request for review, or stated those matters to the administrative agency reaching the disposition | submitted a written request for examination |
| Article 22, paragraph (1) | the written request for review to the administrative agency reaching the disposition or the reviewing agency | the written request for examination to the reviewing agency |
| Article 22, paragraph (5) | written request for review, or written request for reinvestigation or record of oral statement of request for reinvestigation | written request for examination |
| Article 23 (including the caption) | written request for review | written request for examination |
| Article 23 | Article 19 | Article 27 of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Photographing Sexual Poses, etc. and the Erasure, etc. of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Images of Sexual Poses Recorded on Seized Articles |
| Article 25, paragraph (2) | a superior administrative agency of the administrative agency reaching the disposition, or the reviewing agency that is the administrative agency reaching the disposition | the reviewing agency |
| Article 25, paragraph (7) | has been filed or a written opinion to suggest the necessity to order a stay of execution as prescribed in Article 40 has been submitted by a review officer | has been filed |
| Article 30, paragraph (2) | except for Article 40 and Article 42, paragraph (1), hereinafter | hereinafter |
| Article 30, paragraph (3) | when a written counterargument has been submitted by the requestor for review, send it to intervenors and the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition, and when an intervenor | when an intervenor |
| send it to the requestor for review and the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition, respectively | , send it to the requestor for examination | |
| Article 38, paragraph (1) | the intervenor, until the review proceedings are concluded pursuant to Article 41, paragraph (1) or (2) | the intervenor |
| the documents listed in the items of Article 29, paragraph (4), or Article 32, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), or | Article 32, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), or | |
| the relevant document or the relevant documents | the relevant documents | |
| Article 51, paragraph (4) | intervenors and the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition (limited to an administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition other than the reviewing agency) | intervenors |
行政不服審査法（平成二十六年法律第六十八号）第十条から第十五条まで、第十八条第三項、第二十一条、第二十二条第一項及び第五項、第二十三条、第二十五条第一項、第二項及び第四項から第七項まで、第二十六条から第二十八条まで、第三十条第二項及び第三項、第三十二条から第三十六条まで、第三十八条第一項から第五項まで、第三十九条、第五十一条第四項、第五十二条第一項並びに第五十三条の規定は、第二十六条の規定による審査の申立てについて準用する。この場合において、次の表の上欄に掲げる同法の規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる字句に読み替えるものとする。
| 読み替える行政不服審査法の規定 | 読み替えられる字句 | 読み替える字句 |
| 第十一条第二項 | 第九条第一項の規定により指名された者（以下「審理員」という。） | 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律第二十六条第一項の規定による審査の申立てがされた検察庁の長（以下「審査庁」という。） |
| 第十三条第一項及び第二項、第二十八条、第三十条第二項及び第三項、第三十二条第三項、第三十三条から第三十六条まで、第三十八条第一項から第三項まで及び第五項並びに第三十九条 | 審理員 | 審査庁 |
| 第十四条 | 第十九条に規定する審査請求書又は第二十一条第二項に規定する審査請求録取書 | 審査申立書 |
| 第十八条第三項 | 次条に規定する審査請求書 | 審査申立書 |
| 前二項に規定する期間（以下「審査請求期間」という。） | 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律第二十六条第一項に規定する期間 | |
| 第二十一条第一項 | 審査請求書を提出し、又は処分庁等に対し第十九条第二項から第五項までに規定する事項を陳述する | 審査申立書を提出する |
| 第二十一条第二項 | 審査請求書又は審査請求録取書（前条後段の規定により陳述の内容を録取した書面をいう。第二十九条第一項及び第五十五条において同じ。） | 審査申立書 |
| 第二十一条第三項 | 審査請求書を提出し、又は処分庁に対し当該事項を陳述した | 審査申立書を提出した |
| 第二十二条第一項 | 審査請求書を処分庁又は審査庁 | 審査申立書を審査庁 |
| 第二十二条第五項 | 審査請求書又は再調査の請求書若しくは再調査の請求録取書 | 審査申立書 |
| 第二十三条（見出しを含む。） | 審査請求書 | 審査申立書 |
| 第二十三条 | 第十九条 | 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律第二十七条 |
| 第二十五条第二項 | 処分庁の上級行政庁又は処分庁である審査庁 | 審査庁 |
| 第二十五条第七項 | あったとき、又は審理員から第四十条に規定する執行停止をすべき旨の意見書が提出された | あった |
| 第三十条第二項 | 第四十条及び第四十二条第一項を除き、以下 | 以下 |
| 第三十条第三項 | 審査請求人から反論書の提出があったときはこれを参加人及び処分庁等に、参加人 | 参加人 |
| これを審査請求人及び処分庁等に、それぞれ | 、これを審査申立人に | |
| 第三十八条第一項 | 参加人は、第四十一条第一項又は第二項の規定により審理手続が終結するまでの間 | 参加人は |
| 第二十九条第四項各号に掲げる書面又は第三十二条第一項若しくは第二項若しくは | 第三十二条第一項若しくは第二項又は | |
| 当該書面若しくは当該書類 | 当該書類 | |
| 第五十一条第四項 | 参加人及び処分庁等（審査庁以外の処分庁等に限る。） | 参加人 |
Notwithstanding Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act as applied mutatis mutandis with replacement of terms in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "Administrative Complaint Review Act applied mutatis mutandis"), the persons listed in the following items may not request the delivery of what is specified in those items.
a requestor for examination or an intervenor (excluding the persons listed in the following item): the part of a copy of the documents prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act applied mutatis mutandis in which covered poses, etc. are stated, or the part of the written documents prescribed in that paragraph in which covered poses, etc. are stated;
審査申立人又は参加人（次号に掲げる者を除く。） 準用行政不服審査法第三十八条第一項に規定する書類の写しのうち対象姿態等が記載された部分又は同項に規定する書面のうち対象姿態等が記載された部分
an intervenor who is a photographed person, etc.: the part of a copy of the documents prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act applied mutatis mutandis in which covered poses, etc. (excluding those belonging to that intervenor (or, where that intervenor is the legal representative of a person specified in the items of Article 9, paragraph (2), the person specified in the relevant items of that paragraph); the same applies hereinafter in this item) are stated, or the part of the written documents prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act applied mutatis mutandis in which covered poses, etc. are stated.
撮影対象者等である参加人 準用行政不服審査法第三十八条第一項に規定する書類の写しのうち対象姿態等（当該参加人（当該参加人が第九条第二項各号に定める者の法定代理人である場合にあっては、当該同項各号に定める者）のものを除く。以下この号において同じ。）が記載された部分又は準用行政不服審査法第三十八条第一項に規定する書面のうち対象姿態等が記載された部分
Article 32Limitation on Requests for Review
第三十二条（審査請求の制限）
No request for review may be filed against a disposition, etc. listed in the items of Article 26, paragraph (1).