# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - Law: 行政不服審査法 (Administrative Complaint Review Act), 平成二十六年法律第六十八号 - English title "Administrative Complaint Review Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十二条 (Article 12)（代理人による審査請求） — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-12 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十二条（代理人による審査請求） — (Requests for Review by Agents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-12 **第一項** 審査請求は、代理人によってすることができる。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-12/par-1 The agent for a requestor for review may file a request for review. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の代理人は、各自、審査請求人のために、当該審査請求に関する一切の行為をすることができる。ただし、審査請求の取下げは、特別の委任を受けた場合に限り、することができる。 art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-12/par-2 Each of the agent referred to in the preceding paragraph may perform all acts related to the request for review on behalf of the requestor for review; provided, however, that the agent may conduct procedures for the withdrawal of the request for review only when they have been specially entrusted by the requestor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-12/par-2: 前項 → 行政不服審査法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-12/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第三十一条第一項（行政不服審査法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sexual-image-filming-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-31/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第十二条第二項（代理人による審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-12/par-2 - 行政不服審査法 第六十一条第一項（審査請求に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-61/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 行政不服審査法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/426AC0000000068/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Administrative Complaint Review Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4757/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 208 — 行政不服審査法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17