# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) - 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（再調査の請求の認容の決定） — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（再調査の請求の認容の決定） — (Decision on Approval of Requests for Re-Investigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59 **第一項** 処分（事実上の行為を除く。）についての再調査の請求が理由がある場合には、処分庁は、決定で、当該処分の全部若しくは一部を取り消し、又はこれを変更する。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59/par-1 When there are grounds for a request for re-investigation concerning a disposition (excluding de facto acts), the administrative agency reaching the disposition is to revoke the disposition in full or in part or change the disposition by a decision. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事実上の行為についての再調査の請求が理由がある場合には、処分庁は、決定で、当該事実上の行為が違法又は不当である旨を宣言するとともに、当該事実上の行為の全部若しくは一部を撤廃し、又はこれを変更する。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59/par-2 When there are grounds for a request for re-investigation concerning de facto acts, the administrative agency reaching the disposition is to declare the fact that the de facto acts are illegal or unjust and repeal the de facto acts in full or in part or change the de facto acts by a decision. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 処分庁は、前二項の場合において、再調査の請求人の不利益に当該処分又は当該事実上の行為を変更することはできない。 art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59/par-3 In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the administrative agency reaching the disposition may not change the disposition or de facto acts in a manner disadvantageous to the requestor for re-investigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59/par-3: 前二項 → 行政不服審査法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59/par-1 - art-59/par-3: 前二項 → 行政不服審査法 第五十九条第二項 (Article 59, paragraph (2)), art-59/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 行政不服審査法 第五十六条第一項（再調査の請求についての決定を経ずに審査請求がされた場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-56/par-1 - 行政不服審査法 第五十九条第三項（再調査の請求の認容の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-59/par-3 - 行政不服審査法 第六十条第一項（決定の方式） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-60/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