# 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 / Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs — 第十九条 (Article 19) - Law: 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 (Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs), 平成十一年法律第四十二号 - English title "Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs": 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（審査会への諮問） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（審査会への諮問） — (Consultation with the Review Board) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19 **第一項** 開示決定等又は開示請求に係る不作為について審査請求があったときは、当該審査請求に対する裁決をすべき行政機関の長は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合を除き、情報公開・個人情報保護審査会（審査請求に対する裁決をすべき行政機関の長が会計検査院の長である場合にあっては、別に法律で定める審査会）に諮問しなければならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-1 When there is a request for review related to a disclosure or non-disclosure decision or an inaction related to a disclosure request, the head of the administrative organ who should make an administrative determination on the request for review must consult with the Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board (when the head of the administrative organ who should make an administrative determination on the request for review is the President of the Board of Audit, a review board specified separately by laws), unless the case falls under either of the following cases: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 審査請求が不適法であり、却下する場合 art-19/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-1/item-1 if the request for review is not in accordance with the law and is to be dismissed; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 裁決で、審査請求の全部を認容し、当該審査請求に係る行政文書の全部を開示することとする場合（当該行政文書の開示について反対意見書が提出されている場合を除く。） art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-1/item-2 if the entire request for review has been approved by an administrative determination, and it is decided that all of the administrative documents related to the request for review is to be disclosed (excluding the cases in which a written opposition opinion on the disclosure of the administrative documents has been submitted). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により諮問をした行政機関の長は、次に掲げる者に対し、諮問をした旨を通知しなければならない。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-2 The head of an administrative organ who has made a consultation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must notify the following persons of the fact that a consultation has been made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 審査請求人及び参加人（行政不服審査法第十三条第四項に規定する参加人をいう。以下この項及び次条第一項第二号において同じ。） art-19/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-2/item-1 the requestor for review and intervenor (meaning the intervenor prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (4) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act; the same applies below in this paragraph and paragraph (1), item (ii) of the following Article); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 開示請求者（開示請求者が審査請求人又は参加人である場合を除く。） art-19/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-2/item-2 the disclosure requester (except when the person is the requestor for review or an intervenor); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該審査請求に係る行政文書の開示について反対意見書を提出した第三者（当該第三者が審査請求人又は参加人である場合を除く。） art-19/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-2/item-3 a third party that has submitted a written opposition opinion on the disclosure of the administrative documents related to the request for review (excluding the cases in which the third party is the requestor for review or an intervenor). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-2: 前項 → 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-1 - art-19/par-2/item-1: 行政不服審査法第十三条第四項 → 行政不服審査法 第十三条第四項 (Article 13, paragraph (4)), art-13/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-13/par-4 - art-19/par-2/item-1: この項 → 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-2 - art-19/par-2/item-1: 次条第一項第二号 → 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第二十条第一項第二号 (Article 20, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-20/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-20/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-20/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十三条第一項（第三者に対する意見書提出の機会の付与等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-13/par-1 - 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十三条第三項（第三者に対する意見書提出の機会の付与等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-13/par-3 - 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十九条第二項（審査会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-2 - 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 第十九条第二項第一号（審査会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-disclosure-act/art-19/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/411AC0000000042/art-19/par-2/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/411AC0000000042/20260717_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-09-29 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4777/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - This site's parser, version 211 — 行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29