# 行政手続法 / Administrative Procedure Act — 第二十四条 (Article 24) - Law: 行政手続法 (Administrative Procedure Act), 平成五年法律第八十八号 - English title "Administrative Procedure 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（聴聞調書及び報告書） — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2026-07-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条（聴聞調書及び報告書） — (Hearing Records and Written Reports) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24 **第一項** 主宰者は、聴聞の審理の経過を記載した調書を作成し、当該調書において、不利益処分の原因となる事実に対する当事者及び参加人の陳述の要旨を明らかにしておかなければならない。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-1 The presiding official must prepare a record of the proceedings of the hearing, and must clarify the outline of the statements by relevant persons and intervenors on the facts that are the cause of an adverse disposition in the record. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の調書は、聴聞の期日における審理が行われた場合には各期日ごとに、当該審理が行われなかった場合には聴聞の終結後速やかに作成しなければならない。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-2 The record stated in the preceding paragraph must be prepared for each date of the hearing when proceedings are conducted on the date of the hearing, and if the proceedings are not conducted, promptly after the hearing is concluded. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 主宰者は、聴聞の終結後速やかに、不利益処分の原因となる事実に対する当事者等の主張に理由があるかどうかについての意見を記載した報告書を作成し、第一項の調書とともに行政庁に提出しなければならない。 art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-3 After the hearing is concluded, the presiding official must promptly prepare a written report stating their opinion as to whether there are any grounds for the assertion of the relevant persons or other persons concerning the facts that are to be the cause of the adverse disposition, and submit the report to the administrative agency together with the record referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 当事者又は参加人は、第一項の調書及び前項の報告書の閲覧を求めることができる。 art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-4 Relevant persons and intervenors may request inspection of the records referred to in paragraph (1) and the written report referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-24/par-2: 前項 → 行政手続法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-1 - art-24/par-3: 第一項 → 行政手続法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-1 - art-24/par-4: 第一項 → 行政手続法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-1 - art-24/par-4: 前項 → 行政手続法 第二十四条第三項 (Article 24, paragraph (3)), art-24/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-3 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 第七条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7/par-5 - 医師法 第七条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-7/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-7/par-7 - 医師法 第三十条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-30-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-30-3/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第二十九条第四項第一号（弁明書の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-4/item-1 - 行政手続法 第十八条第一項（文書等の閲覧） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-18/par-1 - 行政手続法 第二十四条第二項（聴聞調書及び報告書） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-2 - 行政手続法 第二十四条第三項（聴聞調書及び報告書） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-3 - 行政手続法 第二十四条第四項（聴聞調書及び報告書） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-4 - 行政手続法 第二十五条第一項（聴聞の再開） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-25/par-1 - 行政手続法 第二十六条第一項（聴聞を経てされる不利益処分の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-26/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 行政手続法 — the text in force from 2026-07-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/405AC0000000088/20260724_508AC0000000066), retrieved 2026-09-29 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Administrative Procedure Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4765/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - This site's parser, version 211 — 行政手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29