# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42)

- 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（審理員意見書） — address `art-42`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-42
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-42
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### 第四十二条（審理員意見書） — (Review Officer's Written Opinions)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-42</sup>

  **第一項**  審理員は、審理手続を終結したときは、遅滞なく、審査庁がすべき裁決に関する意見書（以下「審理員意見書」という。）を作成しなければならない。
  <sup>art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-42/par-1</sup>
  When the procedures for proceedings have been concluded, a review officer must prepare a written opinion concerning the administrative determination to be made by the reviewing agency (referred to as a "review officer's written opinion" below) without delay.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  審理員は、審理員意見書を作成したときは、速やかに、これを事件記録とともに、審査庁に提出しなければならない。
  <sup>art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-42/par-2</sup>
  When a review officer has prepared a review officer's written opinion, the review officer must promptly submit it to the reviewing agency together with the case record.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六条第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-106/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施行規則 第五十八条の七第一項（意見書の内容） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-58-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-58-7/par-1
- 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 第九条第三項（審理員） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-9/par-3
- 行政不服審査法 第三十条第二項（反論書等の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-30/par-2
- 行政不服審査法 第四十一条第三項（審理手続の終結） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-41/par-3
- 行政不服審査法 第六十六条第二項（審査請求に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-66/par-2

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch administrative-complaint-review-act-20261017T195821-001, 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
