# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第五十五条 (Article 55) - 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55)（誤った教示をした場合の救済） — address `art-55` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条（誤った教示をした場合の救済） — (Relief When an Erroneous Instruction Is Given) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55 **第一項** 再調査の請求をすることができる処分につき、処分庁が誤って再調査の請求をすることができる旨を教示しなかった場合において、審査請求がされた場合であって、審査請求人から申立てがあったときは、審査庁は、速やかに、審査請求書又は審査請求録取書を処分庁に送付しなければならない。ただし、審査請求人に対し弁明書が送付された後においては、この限りでない。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55/par-1 Regarding a disposition for which a request for re-investigation may be filed, when the administrative agency reaching the disposition has erroneously failed to inform a person that a request for re-investigation may be filed, and the person has filed a request for review and the requestor for review has filed a petition, the reviewing agency must promptly send the written request for review or written statement concerning the request for review to the administrative agency reaching the disposition; provided, however, that this does not apply after a written explanation has been sent to the requestor for review. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項本文の規定により審査請求書又は審査請求録取書の送付を受けた処分庁は、速やかに、その旨を審査請求人及び参加人に通知しなければならない。 art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55/par-2 The administrative agency reaching the disposition that has received the written request for review or written statement concerning the request for review pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of the preceding paragraph must promptly notify that fact to the requestor for review and the intervenors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項本文の規定により審査請求書又は審査請求録取書が処分庁に送付されたときは、初めから処分庁に再調査の請求がされたものとみなす。 art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55/par-3 When the written request for review or written statement concerning the request for review has been sent to the administrative agency reaching the disposition pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of paragraph (1), the request for re-investigation is deemed to have been filed with the administrative agency reaching the dispositionin the first place. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55/par-2: 前項 → 行政不服審査法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55/par-1 - art-55/par-3: 第一項 → 行政不服審査法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55/par-1 ## Cited by 5 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 第五十五条第二項（誤った教示をした場合の救済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55/par-2 - 行政不服審査法 第五十五条第三項（誤った教示をした場合の救済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-55/par-3 - 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