# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第五十一条 (Article 51) - 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（裁決の効力発生） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条（裁決の効力発生） — (Occurrence of Effects of Administrative Determinations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-51 **第一項** 裁決は、審査請求人（当該審査請求が処分の相手方以外の者のしたものである場合における第四十六条第一項及び第四十七条の規定による裁決にあっては、審査請求人及び処分の相手方）に送達された時に、その効力を生ずる。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-51/par-1 An administrative determination comes into effect when it is served to the requestor for review (for an administrative determination made under the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (1) and Article 47 when the request for review has been filed by a person other than the party subject to the disposition, the requestor for review and the party subject to the disposition). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁決の送達は、送達を受けるべき者に裁決書の謄本を送付することによってする。ただし、送達を受けるべき者の所在が知れない場合その他裁決書の謄本を送付することができない場合には、公示の方法によってすることができる。 art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-51/par-2 The service of an administrative determination is to be made by sending a transcript of the written administrative determination to the person to who is to be served the administrative determination; provided, however, that if the whereabouts of the person who is to be served the administrative determination are unknown or if it is not possible to send a transcript of the written administrative determination, the service of the administrative determination may be made by means of public notice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 公示の方法による送達は、審査庁が裁決書の謄本を保管し、いつでもその送達を受けるべき者に交付する旨を総務省令で定める方法により不特定多数の者が閲覧することができる状態に置くとともに、その旨が記載された書面を当該審査庁の事務所の掲示場に掲示し、又はその旨を当該事務所に設置した電子計算機の映像面に表示したものの閲覧をすることができる状態に置く措置をとることにより行うものとする。この場合において、当該措置を開始した日の翌日から起算して二週間を経過した時に裁決書の謄本の送付があったものとみなす。 art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-51/par-3 The service of the administrative determination by means of public notice is to be made by the reviewing agency keeping the transcript of the written administrative determination and in a manner that enables an unspecified and large number of persons to inspect the fact that the transcript will be delivered to the person who is to receive the service at any time by the means specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and by taking the measures to post a document stating that fact on the notice board in the office of the reviewing agency or to enable the inspection of that fact displayed on a screen of a computer installed at the office. In such a case, the transcript of the written administrative determination is deemed to be served at the time when two weeks have passed from the day following the day on which the measures have been initiated. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The service of the administrative determination by means of public notice is to be made by the reviewing agency keeping the transcript of the written administrative determination and in a manner that enables an unspecified and large number of persons to inspect the fact that the transcript will be delivered to the person who is to receive the service at any time by the means specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, and by taking the measures to post a document stating that fact on the notice board in the office of the reviewing agency or to enable the inspection of that fact displayed on a screen of a computer installed at the office. In such a case, the transcript of the written administrative determination is deemed to be served at the time when two weeks have passed from the day following the day on which the measures have been initiated." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4757/tb **第四項** 審査庁は、裁決書の謄本を参加人及び処分庁等（審査庁以外の処分庁等に限る。）に送付しなければならない。 art-51/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-51/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-51/par-4 The reviewing agency must send a transcript of the written administrative determination to the intervenors and the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition (limited to the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition other than the reviewing agency). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51/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-51/par-1: 第四十七条 → 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 11 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 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十九条の三第二項（公示送達の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-59-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-59-3/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第五十九条の三第三項（公示送達の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-59-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-59-3/par-3 - 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 附則第二条第一項第十四号（公示送達等の方法に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-14 - 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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Administrative Complaint Review Act, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Administrative Complaint Review Act (行政不服審査法), Article 51, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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