# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第六十条 (Article 60) - 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: 第六十条 (Article 60)（決定の方式） — address `art-60` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-60 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-60 - 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. --- ### 第六十条（決定の方式） — (Method of Making Decisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-60 **第一項** 前二条の決定は、主文及び理由を記載し、処分庁が記名押印した決定書によりしなければならない。 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 A decision referred to in the preceding two Articles must be made using a written decision stating the text and the reasons and on which the administrative agency reaching the disposition has affixed its name and seal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 処分庁は、前項の決定書（再調査の請求に係る処分の全部を取り消し、又は撤廃する決定に係るものを除く。）に、再調査の請求に係る処分につき審査請求をすることができる旨（却下の決定である場合にあっては、当該却下の決定が違法な場合に限り審査請求をすることができる旨）並びに審査請求をすべき行政庁及び審査請求期間を記載して、これらを教示しなければならない。 art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-60/par-2 The administrative agency reaching the disposition must state the fact that a request for review may be filed for a disposition of the request for re-investigation in the written decision referred to in the preceding paragraph (excluding a written decision on revoking or eliminating in full the disposition related to the request for re-investigation) (for a decision to dismiss the request, the fact that a request for review may be filed only when the decision of dismissal is illegal), an administrative agency with which a request for review should be filed, and the period for filing a request for review to inform the relevant person of these matters. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-60/par-1: 前二条 → 行政不服審査法 第五十八条 (Article 58), art-58 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-58 - art-60/par-1: 前二条 → 行政不服審査法 第五十九条 (Article 59), art-59 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59 - art-60/par-2: 前項 → 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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 行政不服審査法 第六十条第二項（決定の方式） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-60/par-2 --- ## 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