# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第二十条 (Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（口頭による審査請求） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（口頭による審査請求） — (Requests for Review Orally Filed) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-20 **第一項** 口頭で審査請求をする場合には、前条第二項から第五項までに規定する事項を陳述しなければならない。この場合において、陳述を受けた行政庁は、その陳述の内容を録取し、これを陳述人に読み聞かせて誤りのないことを確認しなければならない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-20/par-1 When orally filing a request for review, the person must orally state the matters prescribed in paragraphs (2) through (5) of the preceding Article. In such a case, the administrative agency that has received the oral statement must record its content, and read the recording aloud to the person that has made the oral statement to confirm that there are no errors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-20/par-1: 前条第二項から第五項まで → 行政不服審査法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-19/par-2 - art-20/par-1: 前条第二項から第五項まで → 行政不服審査法 第十九条第三項 (Article 19, paragraph (3)), art-19/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-19/par-3 - art-20/par-1: 前条第二項から第五項まで → 行政不服審査法 第十九条第四項 (Article 19, paragraph (4)), art-19/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-19/par-4 - art-20/par-1: 前条第二項から第五項まで → 行政不服審査法 第十九条第五項 (Article 19, paragraph (5)), art-19/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-19/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-19/par-5 ## Cited by 6 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 第二十一条第二項（処分庁等を経由する審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-21/par-2 - 行政不服審査法 第二十二条第三項（誤った教示をした場合の救済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-22/par-3 - 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