# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（不利益変更の禁止） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（不利益変更の禁止） — (Prohibition of Adverse Changes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-48 **第一項** 第四十六条第一項本文又は前条の場合において、審査庁は、審査請求人の不利益に当該処分を変更し、又は当該事実上の行為を変更すべき旨を命じ、若しくはこれを変更することはできない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-48/par-1 In the case referred to in the main clause of Article 46, paragraph (1) or the preceding Article, the reviewing agency may not make a change to the disposition, or order the de facto act to be changed or change the de facto act, in a manner that is disadvantageous to requestor for review. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: 第四十六条第一項 → 行政不服審査法 第四十六条第一項 (Article 46, paragraph (1)), art-46/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-46/par-1 - art-48/par-1: 前条 → 行政不服審査法 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-47 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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