# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第七条 (Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（適用除外） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（適用除外） — (Exclusion from Application) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7 **第一項** 次に掲げる処分及びその不作為については、第二条及び第三条の規定は、適用しない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1 The provisions of Article 2 and Article 3 do not apply to the following dispositions and their inaction: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 国会の両院若しくは一院又は議会の議決によってされる処分 art-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-1 a disposition rendered through a resolution of both Houses or one House of the Diet, or resolution by a local council; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 裁判所若しくは裁判官の裁判により、又は裁判の執行としてされる処分 art-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-2 a disposition rendered by the judgment of a court or a judge, or rendered as enforcement of judicial decisions; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 国会の両院若しくは一院若しくは議会の議決を経て、又はこれらの同意若しくは承認を得た上でされるべきものとされている処分 art-7/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-3 a disposition that is required to be rendered through a resolution of both Houses or one House of the Diet or through resolution by a local council, or through obtaining the consent or approval of the Houses or the council; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 検査官会議で決すべきものとされている処分 art-7/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-4 a disposition that is required to be decided by the Audit Commission; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 当事者間の法律関係を確認し、又は形成する処分で、法令の規定により当該処分に関する訴えにおいてその法律関係の当事者の一方を被告とすべきものと定められているもの art-7/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-5 a disposition to confirm or create a legal relationship between the parties, and one of the party in the legal relationship is required to be the defendant in the action concerning the disposition pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 刑事事件に関する法令に基づいて検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員がする処分 art-7/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-6 a disposition rendered by a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer, or a judicial police official based on laws and regulations related to criminal cases; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **七** 国税又は地方税の犯則事件に関する法令（他の法令において準用する場合を含む。）に基づいて国税庁長官、国税局長、税務署長、国税庁、国税局若しくは税務署の当該職員、税関長、税関職員又は徴税吏員（他の法令の規定に基づいてこれらの職員の職務を行う者を含む。）がする処分及び金融商品取引の犯則事件に関する法令（他の法令において準用する場合を含む。）に基づいて証券取引等監視委員会、その職員（当該法令においてその職員とみなされる者を含む。）、財務局長又は財務支局長がする処分 art-7/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-7 a disposition rendered by the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency, a commissioner of a Regional Taxation Bureau, a director of a tax office, the relevant officials of the National Tax Agency, a Regional Taxation Bureau, or a tax office, Director-General of Japan Customs, customs officials, or tax collectors (including persons that perform the duties of those officials based on the provisions of other laws and regulations) based on laws and regulations related to criminal cases involving national or local tax offenses (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to other laws and regulations), and a disposition rendered by the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, its employees (including persons deemed to be its employee pursuant to the provisions of the laws and regulations), a director-general of a Local Finance Bureau, or a directors-general of a Local Finance Branch Bureau based on laws and regulations related to criminal cases involving financial instruments transactions (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to other laws and regulations); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **八** 学校、講習所、訓練所又は研修所において、教育、講習、訓練又は研修の目的を達成するために、学生、生徒、児童若しくは幼児若しくはこれらの保護者、講習生、訓練生又は研修生に対してされる処分 art-7/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-8 a disposition rendered in schools, training schools, training centers, or training institutes to students, pupils, children or toddlers or their custodians, course participants, or trainees in order to achieve the purpose of education, schooling, or training; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **九** 刑務所、少年刑務所、拘置所、留置施設、海上保安留置施設、少年院又は少年鑑別所において、収容の目的を達成するためにされる処分 art-7/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-9 a disposition rendered in order to achieve the purpose of accommodation in prisons, juvenile prisons, jails, detention facilities, Coast Guard detention facilities, juvenile training schools, juvenile classification homes; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **十** 外国人の出入国又は帰化に関する処分 art-7/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-10 a disposition concerning emigration and immigration or naturalization of foreign nationals; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **十一** 専ら人の学識技能に関する試験又は検定の結果についての処分 art-7/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-11 a disposition concerning results of examinations or certification examinations on a person's academic knowledge and skills; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **十二** この法律に基づく処分（第五章第一節第一款の規定に基づく処分を除く。） art-7/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-1/item-12 a disposition based on this Act (excluding a disposition based on the provisions of Chapter V, Section 1, Subsection 1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 国の機関又は地方公共団体その他の公共団体若しくはその機関に対する処分で、これらの機関又は団体がその固有の資格において当該処分の相手方となるもの及びその不作為については、この法律の規定は、適用しない。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7/par-2 The provisions of this Act do not apply to a disposition rendered to national government organs, local governments, other public entities or their organs, for which those organs or entities are to be the party subject to the disposition in their distinct status as governmental entities, and their inaction. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/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-7/par-1: 第三条 → 行政不服審査法 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国税通則法 第七十六条第一項第二号（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-76/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-76/par-1/item-2 - 行政不服審査法 第八条第一項（特別の不服申立ての制度） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-8/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