# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第三条 (Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（不作為についての審査請求） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（不作為についての審査請求） — (Requests for Review of Inaction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-3 **第一項** 法令に基づき行政庁に対して処分についての申請をした者は、当該申請から相当の期間が経過したにもかかわらず、行政庁の不作為（法令に基づく申請に対して何らの処分をもしないことをいう。以下同じ。）がある場合には、次条の定めるところにより、当該不作為についての審査請求をすることができる。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-3/par-1 When a person has filed an application for a disposition with an administrative agency based on laws and regulations but the administrative agency takes no action (meaning that the administrative agency does not take any action for the application based on laws and regulations; referred to as "inaction" below) although a certain period has elapsed after filing the application, the person may file a request for review regarding the inaction pursuant to the provisions of the following Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-1: 次条 → 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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国税通則法 第七十六条第二項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-76/par-2 - 行政不服審査法 第七条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/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