# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第五十七条 (Article 57)

- 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: 第五十七条 (Article 57)（三月後の教示） — address `art-57`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-57
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-57
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### 第五十七条（三月後の教示） — (Instructions After Three Months Have Passed)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-57</sup>

**第一項**  処分庁は、再調査の請求がされた日（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た場合にあっては、当該不備が補正された日）の翌日から起算して三月を経過しても当該再調査の請求が係属しているときは、遅滞なく、当該処分について直ちに審査請求をすることができる旨を書面でその再調査の請求人に教示しなければならない。
<sup>art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-57/par-1</sup>
When a request for re-investigation is still pending even after three months have passed from the day following the day on which the request for re-investigation was filed (when the administrative agency reaching the disposition ordered the requestor 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 defect was corrected), the administrative agency reaching the disposition must inform the requestor for re-investigation in writing that a request for review may be immediately filed for the disposition.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-57/par-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-57/par-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

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## 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
