# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4261-68/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/suppl-4261-68/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4261-68/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/suppl-4261-68/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行後最初に任命される審査会の委員の任期は、第六十九条第四項本文の規定にかかわらず、九人のうち、三人は二年、六人は三年とする。 suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-1 The term of office of the members of the Board who are appointed for the first time after the enforcement of this Act is two years for three members and three years for the remaining six members of the nine Board members, notwithstanding the provisions of the main clause of Article 69, paragraph (4). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する各委員の任期は、総務大臣が定める。 suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-2 The term of office of each Board member specified in the preceding paragraph is to be provided for by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-1: 第六十九条第四項 → 行政不服審査法 第六十九条第四項 (Article 69, paragraph (4)), art-69/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-69/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-69/par-4 - suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 行政不服審査法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 行政不服審査法 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/suppl-4261-68/art-4/par-2 - 行政不服審査法 附則第五条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/suppl-4261-68/art-5/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