# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（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） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（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） — (When Requests for Review is Filed Without Going Through a Decision on Requests for Re-Investigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-56 **第一項** 第五条第二項ただし書の規定により審査請求がされたときは、同項の再調査の請求は、取り下げられたものとみなす。ただし、処分庁において当該審査請求がされた日以前に再調査の請求に係る処分（事実上の行為を除く。）を取り消す旨の第六十条第一項の決定書の謄本を発している場合又は再調査の請求に係る事実上の行為を撤廃している場合は、当該審査請求（処分（事実上の行為を除く。）の一部を取り消す旨の第五十九条第一項の決定がされている場合又は事実上の行為の一部が撤廃されている場合にあっては、その部分に限る。）が取り下げられたものとみなす。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-56/par-1 When a request for review has been filed pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to Article 5, paragraph (2), the request for re-investigation referred to in that paragraph is deemed to have been withdrawn; provided, however, that when the administrative agency reaching the disposition has sent a transcript of the written decision referred to in Article 60, paragraph (1) of the fact that the disposition (excluding de facto acts) related to the request for re-investigation is to be revoked, or when de facto acts related to the request for re-investigation have been repealed, before the day on which the request for review was filed with the administrative agency reaching the disposition, the request for review in question (when a decision referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1) to revoke in part the disposition (excluding de facto acts) has been made or de facto acts have been repealed in part, limited to that part) is deemed to have been withdrawn. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1: 第五条第二項 → 行政不服審査法 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), 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 - art-56/par-1: 第六十条第一項 → 行政不服審査法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-60/par-1 - art-56/par-1: 第五十九条第一項 → 行政不服審査法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59/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