# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第五十三条 (Article 53) - 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: 第五十三条 (Article 53)（証拠書類等の返還） — address `art-53` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-53 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-53 - 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. --- ### 第五十三条（証拠書類等の返還） — (Return of Evidence Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-53 **第一項** 審査庁は、裁決をしたときは、速やかに、第三十二条第一項又は第二項の規定により提出された証拠書類若しくは証拠物又は書類その他の物件及び第三十三条の規定による提出要求に応じて提出された書類その他の物件をその提出人に返還しなければならない。 art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-53/par-1 When the reviewing agency has made an administrative determination, it must promptly return the evidence documents or articles of evidence, or documents or other objects submitted pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) or (2), and the documents or other objects submitted in response to a request for submission under the provisions of Article 33 to the person who submitted them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-53/par-1: 第三十二条第一項 → 行政不服審査法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-32/par-1 - art-53/par-1: 第二項 → 行政不服審査法 第三十二条第二項 (Article 32, paragraph (2)), art-32/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-32/par-2 - art-53/par-1: 第三十三条 → 行政不服審査法 第三十三条 (Article 33), art-33 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-33 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/appdx-2 --- ## 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