# Administrative Complaint Review Board (行政不服審査会, ぎょうせいふふくしんさかい) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/administrative-complaint-review-board. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Group: Institutions, offices and documents - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/administrative-complaint-review-board - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/administrative-complaint-review-board - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-18 A board set up in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省) to deal with the matters the Administrative Complaint Review Act puts in its charge (Administrative Complaint Review Act, Article 67). Where the agency deciding a request for review (審査請求) is the competent minister (主任の大臣), the Grand Steward of the Imperial Household Agency (宮内庁長官) or the head of certain agencies, it must as a rule consult the board once the review officer (審理員) has handed in an opinion — but not, among other cases, where a council already deliberated on the disposition (処分), where the person requesting the review has said they do not want the board consulted and no intervenor (参加人) objects, where the request is unlawful and is dismissed, or where a disposition other than one refusing an application is to be revoked in full, or an application is to be granted in full, and no one has opposed that; where the agency is the head of a local government (地方公共団体), it consults a body the local government sets up instead (Articles 43, paragraph (1), and 81). Another Act can send the consultation to a body of its own instead, or do without it: a request for review of a decision on disclosure under the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs is put to the Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board (情報公開・個人情報保護審査会) (Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs, Articles 18, paragraph (2), and 19, paragraph (1); Administrative Complaint Review Act, Article 1, paragraph (2)). The board has nine members, part-time, though up to three may be full-time (Article 68), appointed by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務大臣), with the consent of both Houses of the Diet (国会), from people who can judge fairly and have outstanding insight into law or administration, for three years (Article 69, paragraphs (1) and (4)). It examines each case in a panel of three members it names, or of all its members where it so decides (Article 72). When it has answered a consultation, it sends a copy of its written report (答申書) to the person who requested the review and to any intervenor, and makes the report public (Article 79). The agency that consulted it must then make its determination (裁決) without delay, and where the determination's conclusion differs from the report, it must give the reasons for that (Articles 44 and 50, paragraph (1), item (iv)). Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Administrative Complaint Review Act, Arts. 43, 44, 50, 67, 68, 69, 72, 79, 81](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/426AC0000000068) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act - [Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs, Arts. 18, 19](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/411AC0000000042) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act ## Where the laws use it 6 laws in force use it in this sense, in 11 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Enforcement Order (出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令)](https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order): 4 provisions, among them [Article 15](https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-15), [Article 16](https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-16), [Article 19](https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-19) - [Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報の保護に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 104](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-104), [Article 106](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-106) - [Administrative Complaint Review Act (行政不服審査法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 43](https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-43), [Article 67](https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-67) - [Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 61-2-12](https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act/art-61-2-12) - [Local Tax Act (地方税法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 433](https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-433) - [Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 18](https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-18) ## Related - [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act) - [Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board (情報公開・個人情報保護審査会, じょうほうこうかい・こじんじょうほうほごしんさかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/information-disclosure-review-board) - [Rescission (取消し, とりけし)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/rescission) - [Request for review (審査請求, しんさせいきゅう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/request-for-review) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-18) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (6 records)