# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（再調査の請求） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-5 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五条（再調査の請求） — (Requests for Re-Investigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-5 **第一項** 行政庁の処分につき処分庁以外の行政庁に対して審査請求をすることができる場合において、法律に再調査の請求をすることができる旨の定めがあるときは、当該処分に不服がある者は、処分庁に対して再調査の請求をすることができる。ただし、当該処分について第二条の規定により審査請求をしたときは、この限りでない。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-5/par-1 When it is possible to file a request for review for a disposition reached by an administrative agency with an administrative agency other than the administrative agency reaching the disposition, and a law provides that a request for re-investigation may be filed, a person who is dissatisfied with the disposition may file a request for re-investigation with the administrative agency reaching the disposition; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person has filed a request for review pursuant to the provisions of Article 2. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項本文の規定により再調査の請求をしたときは、当該再調査の請求についての決定を経た後でなければ、審査請求をすることができない。ただし、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合は、この限りでない。 art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-5/par-2 When a person has filed a request for re-investigation pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of the preceding paragraph, the person may not file a request for review until the decision has been made for the request for re-investigation; provided, however, that this does not apply if the case falls under either of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該処分につき再調査の請求をした日（第六十一条において読み替えて準用する第二十三条の規定により不備を補正すべきことを命じられた場合にあっては、当該不備を補正した日）の翌日から起算して三月を経過しても、処分庁が当該再調査の請求につき決定をしない場合 art-5/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-5/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-5/par-2/item-1 when the administrative agency reaching the disposition does not make a decision for the request for re-investigation even after three months have passed from the day following the day on which the person filed the request for re-investigation for the disposition (if the person has been ordered to correct a defect pursuant to the provisions of Article 23 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61 following the deemed replacement of terms, the day on which the person corrected the defect); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** その他再調査の請求についての決定を経ないことにつき正当な理由がある場合 art-5/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-5/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-5/par-2/item-2 when there are other legitimate grounds for not going through a decision on a request for a re-investigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-5/par-1: 第二条 → 行政不服審査法 第二条 (Article 2), art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-2 - art-5/par-2: 前項 → 行政不服審査法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-5/par-1 - art-5/par-2/item-1: 第六十一条 → 行政不服審査法 第六十一条 (Article 61), art-61 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-61 - art-5/par-2/item-1: 第二十三条 → 行政不服審査法 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-23 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 行政不服審査法 第二条第一項（処分についての審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-2/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第五条第二項（再調査の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-5/par-2 - 行政不服審査法 第十九条第五項第一号（審査請求書の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-19/par-5/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-19/par-5/item-1 - 行政不服審査法 第十九条第五項第二号（審査請求書の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-19/par-5/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-19/par-5/item-2 - 行政不服審査法 第五十六条第一項（再調査の請求についての決定を経ずに審査請求がされた場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-56/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