# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第五十四条 (Article 54) - 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: 第五十四条 (Article 54)（再調査の請求期間） — address `art-54` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-54 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条（再調査の請求期間） — (Period for Filing Requests for Re-Investigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-54 **第一項** 再調査の請求は、処分があったことを知った日の翌日から起算して三月を経過したときは、することができない。ただし、正当な理由があるときは、この限りでない。 art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-54/par-1 A request for re-investigation may not be filed after three months have passed from the day following the day on which the person comes to know that the disposition has been rendered; provided, however, that this does not apply if there are legitimate grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 再調査の請求は、処分があった日の翌日から起算して一年を経過したときは、することができない。ただし、正当な理由があるときは、この限りでない。 art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-54/par-2 A request for re-investigation may not be filed after one year has passed from the day following the day on which the disposition has been rendered; provided, however, that this does not apply if there are legitimate grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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