# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第二十九条 (Article 29) - 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29)（弁明書の提出） — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29 - 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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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十九条（弁明書の提出） — (Submission of Written Explanations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29 **第一項** 審理員は、審査庁から指名されたときは、直ちに、審査請求書又は審査請求録取書の写しを処分庁等に送付しなければならない。ただし、処分庁等が審査庁である場合には、この限りでない。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-1 When having been nominated by the reviewing agency, a review officer must immediately send a copy of the written request for review or written statement concerning the request for review to the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition; provided, however, that this does not apply if the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition is the reviewing agency. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 審理員は、相当の期間を定めて、処分庁等に対し、弁明書の提出を求めるものとする。 art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-2 A review officer is to specify a reasonable period of time and request the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition to submit a written explanation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 処分庁等は、前項の弁明書に、次の各号の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める事項を記載しなければならない。 art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-3 The administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition must enter the matters specified in the following items in accordance with the category of the cases referred to in each of those items in the written explanation referred to in the preceding paragraph: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 処分についての審査請求に対する弁明書　処分の内容及び理由 art-29/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-3/item-1 a written explanation on a request for review of a disposition:the content of and the reasons for the disposition; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 不作為についての審査請求に対する弁明書　処分をしていない理由並びに予定される処分の時期、内容及び理由 art-29/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-3/item-2 a written explanation on a request for review of inaction:the reasons for not having reached a disposition, and the scheduled time and content of the disposition, and the reasons for the disposition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 処分庁が次に掲げる書面を保有する場合には、前項第一号に掲げる弁明書にこれを添付するものとする。 art-29/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-4 When the administrative agency reaching the disposition is to hold the following documents, the documents are to be attached to the written explanation stated in item (i) of the preceding paragraph: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 行政手続法（平成五年法律第八十八号）第二十四条第一項の調書及び同条第三項の報告書 art-29/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-4/item-1 the record referred to in Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Procedure Act (Act No. 88 of 1993) and the written report referred to in paragraph (3) of that Article; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 行政手続法第二十九条第一項に規定する弁明書 art-29/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-4/item-2 the written explanation prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Procedure Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 審理員は、処分庁等から弁明書の提出があったときは、これを審査請求人及び参加人に送付しなければならない。 art-29/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-5 When a written explanation has been submitted by the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition, a review officer must send the written explanation to the requestor for review and the intervenors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-29/par-3: 前項 → 行政不服審査法 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-2 - art-29/par-4: 前項第一号 → 行政不服審査法 第二十九条第三項第一号 (Article 29, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-29/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-3/item-1 - art-29/par-4/item-1: 行政手続法（平成五年法律第八十八号）第二十四条第一項 → 行政手続法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-1 - art-29/par-4/item-1: 同条第三項 → 行政手続法 第二十四条第三項 (Article 24, paragraph (3)), art-24/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-procedure-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-24/par-3 - art-29/par-4/item-2: 行政手続法第二十九条第一項 → 行政手続法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-procedure-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-29/par-1 ## Cited by 14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第百五十七条第六項（審査請求事件の処理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-157/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-157/par-6 - 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 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六条第二項（地方公共団体の機関等における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/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-106/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-106/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第六十一条の二の十二第六項（審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-61-2-12/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-61-2-12/par-6 - 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 第二十一条第二項（処分庁等を経由する審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-21/par-2 - 行政不服審査法 第二十九条第三項（弁明書の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-3 - 行政不服審査法 第二十九条第四項（弁明書の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-29/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-29/par-4 - 行政不服審査法 第三十条第一項（反論書等の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-30/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第三十八条第一項（審査請求人等による提出書類等の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-38/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第四十一条第二項第一号イ（審理手続の終結） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-41/par-2/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-41/par-2/item-1/sub-1 - 行政不服審査法 第六十六条第一項（審査請求に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-66/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/appdx-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 --- ## 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