# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act

- 平成二十六年法律第六十八号 · Act
- English title "Administrative Complaint Review Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act
- Permanent URL: https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068
- 87 articles in the main text, 21 articles in the 附則 (supplementary provisions).

This law's whole text runs past 200 KB as Markdown, so its twin here is its table of
contents. Each page of the law below has a twin of its own, at that page's path under /md,
with the same rules: the Japanese and the English of every provision, the source of each
English line, and every provision's address and URLs. Only the Japanese as published by the
government has legal effect.

One provision as Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-1

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## 本則 (the main text)

- 制定文（一） — Enacting Statement 1 — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/enact-1 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act#enact-1
- 第一章　総則 — Chapter I General Provisions · art-1 to art-8 · 39 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-1 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-1
  <sup>heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
- 第二章　審査請求 — Chapter II Requests for Review · art-9 to art-53 · 226 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-2 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-2
  <sup>heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
  - 第九条から第十八条まで — Articles 9 to 18 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-2/from-art-9
  - 第十九条から第二十九条まで — Articles 19 to 29 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-2/from-art-19
  - 第三十条から第四十二条まで — Articles 30 to 42 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-2/from-art-30
  - 第四十三条から第四十六条まで — Articles 43 to 46 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-2/from-art-43
  - 第四十七条から第五十三条まで — Articles 47 to 53 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-2/from-art-47
- 第三章　再調査の請求 — Chapter III Requests for Re-Investigation · art-54 to art-61 · 24 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-3 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-3
  <sup>heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
- 第四章　再審査請求 — Chapter IV Requests for Re-Examination · art-62 to art-66 · 17 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-4 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-4
  <sup>heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
- 第五章　行政不服審査会等 — Chapter V Administrative Complaint Review Board, etc. · art-67 to art-81 · 64 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-5 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-5
  <sup>heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
- 第六章　補則 — Chapter VI Auxiliary Provisions · art-82 to art-87 · 19 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-6 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/ch-6
  <sup>heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## 附則・別表・様式 (supplementary provisions, appended tables and forms)

- 附　則 · 14 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4261-68
- 附　則 平成二九年三月三一日法律第四号 · 11 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4291-4 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-4291-4
- 附　則 令和三年五月一九日法律第三七号 · 10 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5031-37 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5031-37
- 附　則 令和四年五月二五日法律第五二号 · 6 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5041-52 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5041-52
- 附　則 令和四年六月一七日法律第六八号 · 3 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5041-68 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5041-68
- 附　則 令和五年六月一六日法律第六三号 · 13 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5051-63 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5051-63
- 附　則 令和八年六月二四日法律第四六号 · 6 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5081-46 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5081-46
- 別表第一 （第九条関係） · 1 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-1 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-1
- 別表第二 （第六十一条関係） · 1 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-2 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-2
- 別表第三 （第六十六条関係） · 1 provisions — Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-3 · page: https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-3

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Administrative Complaint Review Act, written 2026-10-18
- 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
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Administrative Complaint Review Act (行政不服審査法), Appended Table 1 — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4757/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch administrative-complaint-review-act-20261017T195821-001, translated 2026-10-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch administrative-complaint-review-act-20261017T195821-002, translated 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 208 — 行政不服審査法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17