# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第四十五条 (Article 45) - 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: 第四十五条 (Article 45)（処分についての審査請求の却下又は棄却） — address `art-45` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-45 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-45 - 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. --- ### 第四十五条（処分についての審査請求の却下又は棄却） — (Dismissal or Rejection of Requests for Review of Dispositions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-45 **第一項** 処分についての審査請求が法定の期間経過後にされたものである場合その他不適法である場合には、審査庁は、裁決で、当該審査請求を却下する。 art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-45/par-1 When a request for review of a disposition has been filed after the elapse of the statutory period, or is otherwise unlawful, the reviewing agency is to dismiss the request for review by an administrative determination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 処分についての審査請求が理由がない場合には、審査庁は、裁決で、当該審査請求を棄却する。 art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-45/par-2 When there are no grounds for a request for review of a disposition, the reviewing agency is to reject the request for review by an administrative determination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 審査請求に係る処分が違法又は不当ではあるが、これを取り消し、又は撤廃することにより公の利益に著しい障害を生ずる場合において、審査請求人の受ける損害の程度、その損害の賠償又は防止の程度及び方法その他一切の事情を考慮した上、処分を取り消し、又は撤廃することが公共の福祉に適合しないと認めるときは、審査庁は、裁決で、当該審査請求を棄却することができる。この場合には、審査庁は、裁決の主文で、当該処分が違法又は不当であることを宣言しなければならない。 art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-45/par-3 When a disposition related to a request for review is illegal or unjust but its revocation or elimination significantly harms public interest, and the reviewing agency finds that the revocation or elimination of the disposition is not in accordance with public welfare upon considering the extent of damage suffered by the requestor for review, the extent and method of compensation for or prevention of the damage, and all other circumstances, it may dismiss the request for review by an administrative determination . In such a case, the reviewing agency must declare that the disposition is illegal or unjust in the text of the administrative determination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 11 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 第五十五条の七十二第二項（裁決） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-72/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四項（審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-61-2-12/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-61-2-12/par-4 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第十五条第一項（出入国在留管理庁長官に対する審査の申請の裁決に関する技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-15/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 - 行政不服審査法 第二十四条第一項（審理手続を経ないでする却下裁決） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-24/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第四十六条第一項（処分についての審査請求の認容） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-46/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第四十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-47/par-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 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/appdx-2 - 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