# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（標準審理期間） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（標準審理期間） — (Standard Period for Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-16 **第一項** 第四条又は他の法律若しくは条例の規定により審査庁となるべき行政庁（以下「審査庁となるべき行政庁」という。）は、審査請求がその事務所に到達してから当該審査請求に対する裁決をするまでに通常要すべき標準的な期間を定めるよう努めるとともに、これを定めたときは、当該審査庁となるべき行政庁及び関係処分庁（当該審査請求の対象となるべき処分の権限を有する行政庁であって当該審査庁となるべき行政庁以外のものをいう。次条において同じ。）の事務所における備付けその他の適当な方法により公にしておかなければならない。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-16/par-1 The administrative agency that is to become the reviewing agency pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 or the provisions of other laws or Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance (referred to as "administrative agency that is to become the reviewing agency" below) must endeavor to decide a standard period normally necessary between the time when a request for review arrives at their offices and the time when an administrative determination is to be made, and when the standard period has been decided, publicize the standard period by keeping it at the offices of the administrative agency that is to become the reviewing agency and the related administrative agency reaching the disposition (meaning an administrative agency vested with the authority to render a disposition subject to the request for review other than the administrative agency that is to become the reviewing agency; the same applies in the following Article) or by other appropriate methods. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 第四条 → 行政不服審査法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-4 - art-16/par-1: 次条 → 行政不服審査法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-17 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 行政不服審査法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/appdx-2 - 行政不服審査法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/appdx-3 --- ## 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