# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（審理手続の承継） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15 - 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. 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Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 審査請求人について合併又は分割（審査請求の目的である処分に係る権利を承継させるものに限る。）があったときは、合併後存続する法人その他の社団若しくは財団若しくは合併により設立された法人その他の社団若しくは財団又は分割により当該権利を承継した法人は、審査請求人の地位を承継する。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-2 When a requestor for review has undergone a merger or split (limited to a merger or split for having the requestor succeed to the right related to the disposition for which the request for review has been filed), a corporation or other associations or foundations surviving the merger, a corporation or other associations or foundations established by the merger, or a corporation that has succeeded to the right through the split is to succeed to the status of the requestor for review. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の場合には、審査請求人の地位を承継した相続人その他の者又は法人その他の社団若しくは財団は、書面でその旨を審査庁に届け出なければならない。この場合には、届出書には、死亡若しくは分割による権利の承継又は合併の事実を証する書面を添付しなければならない。 art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-3 In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the heir or other persons, or the corporation or other associations or foundations, which have succeeded to the status of the requestor for review must notify the reviewing agency of that fact in writing. In such a case, a document certifying the fact of the succession of the right due to death or split, or the fact of the merger, must be attached to the written notification. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項又は第二項の場合において、前項の規定による届出がされるまでの間において、死亡者又は合併前の法人その他の社団若しくは財団若しくは分割をした法人に宛ててされた通知が審査請求人の地位を承継した相続人その他の者又は合併後の法人その他の社団若しくは財団若しくは分割により審査請求人の地位を承継した法人に到達したときは、当該通知は、これらの者に対する通知としての効力を有する。 art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-4 In the case referred to in paragraph (1) or (2), if, before the notification under the preceding paragraph is given, a notice addressed to the deceased, the corporation, or other associations or foundations before the merger or the corporation that has been split reaches the heir or other persons that have succeeded to the status of the requestor for review, or the corporation or other associations or foundations, after the merger or the corporation that has succeeded to the status of the requestor for review through the split, the notice is to have the effect as a notice addressed to those persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第一項の場合において、審査請求人の地位を承継した相続人その他の者が二人以上あるときは、その一人に対する通知その他の行為は、全員に対してされたものとみなす。 art-15/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-5 In the case referred to in paragraph (1), when there are two or more heirs or other persons that have succeeded to the status of the requestor for review, a notice or other acts given to or performed for one of them is deemed to have been given to or performed for all of them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 審査請求の目的である処分に係る権利を譲り受けた者は、審査庁の許可を得て、審査請求人の地位を承継することができる。 art-15/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-6 A person who has received the transfer of the right related to the disposition for which the request for review has been filed, may succeed to the status of the requestor for review by obtaining permission from the reviewing agency. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15/par-3: 前二項 → 行政不服審査法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-1 - art-15/par-3: 前二項 → 行政不服審査法 第十五条第二項 (Article 15, paragraph (2)), art-15/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-2 - art-15/par-4: 第一項 → 行政不服審査法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-1 - art-15/par-4: 第二項 → 行政不服審査法 第十五条第二項 (Article 15, paragraph (2)), art-15/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-2 - art-15/par-4: 前項 → 行政不服審査法 第十五条第三項 (Article 15, paragraph (3)), art-15/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-3 - art-15/par-5: 第一項 → 行政不服審査法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-1 ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第百五十八条第一項（行政不服審査法の適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-158/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の七十第一項（行政不服審査法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-70/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の七十三第三項（再審査の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-73/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-73/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十四条第一項（出入国在留管理庁長官に対する審査の申請に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-14/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十六条第二項（法務大臣に対する再審査の申請に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-16/par-2 - 性的な姿態を撮影する行為等の処罰及び押収物に記録された性的な姿態の影像に係る電磁的記録の消去等に関する法律 第三十一条第一項（行政不服審査法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sexual-image-filming-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/505AC0000000067/art-31/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第十五条第三項（審理手続の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-3 - 行政不服審査法 第十五条第四項（審理手続の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-4 - 行政不服審査法 第十五条第五項（審理手続の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-15/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-15/par-5 - 行政不服審査法 第六十一条第一項（審査請求に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-61/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/appdx-3 - 道路運送車両法 第三十七条第一項（審査請求期間等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-37/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