# 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 / Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs — 第二十条 (Article 20) - Law: 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 (Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs), 平成十一年法律第四十二号 - English title "Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs": 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（第三者からの審査請求を棄却する場合等における手続等） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（第三者からの審査請求を棄却する場合等における手続等） — (Procedures When Dismissing Requests for Review from Third Parties) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-20 **第一項** 第十三条第三項の規定は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する裁決をする場合について準用する。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-20/par-1 The provisions of Article 13, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases in which the administrative determination falls under any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 開示決定に対する第三者からの審査請求を却下し、又は棄却する裁決 art-20/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-20/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-20/par-1/item-1 an administrative determination to dismiss or reject the request for review from a third party against a disclosure decision; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 審査請求に係る開示決定等（開示請求に係る行政文書の全部を開示する旨の決定を除く。）を変更し、当該審査請求に係る行政文書を開示する旨の裁決（第三者である参加人が当該行政文書の開示に反対の意思を表示している場合に限る。） art-20/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-20/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-20/par-1/item-2 an administrative determination to change the disclosure or non-disclosure decision related to a request for review (excluding a decision to disclose all of the administrative documents related to a request for disclosure), and to disclose the administrative documents related to that request for review (limited to the case in which an intervenor who is a third party has manifested the intention to oppose the disclosure of the administrative documents). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 開示決定等又は開示請求に係る不作為についての審査請求については、政令で定めるところにより、行政不服審査法第四条の規定の特例を設けることができる。 art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-20/par-2 Concerning a request for review of a disclosure decision, etc. or of any inaction related to a disclosure request, special provisions for the provisions of Article 4 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act may be established pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-20/par-1: 第十三条第三項 → 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十三条第三項 (Article 13, paragraph (3)), art-13/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-13/par-3 - art-20/par-2: 行政不服審査法第四条 → 行政不服審査法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十三条第一項（第三者に対する意見書提出の機会の付与等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-13/par-1 - 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十八条第二項（審理員による審理手続に関する規定の適用除外等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-18/par-2 - 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十九条第二項第一号（審査会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-2/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/411AC0000000042/20260717_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-09-29 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4777/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - This site's parser, version 211 — 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29