# 地方税法 / Local Tax Act — 第七百九十七条 (Article 797)

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- Law: 地方税法 (Local Tax Act), 昭和二十五年法律第二百二十六号
- English title "Local Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- 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: 第七百九十七条 (Article 797)（違法行為等の是正） — address `art-797`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-797
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-797
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### 第七百九十七条（違法行為等の是正） — Correction of Unlawful Acts
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-797 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-797 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-797</sup>

  **第一項**  総務大臣は、機構又はその役員若しくは職員若しくは代表者会議の委員の行為がこの法律若しくはこの法律に基づく命令又は定款に違反し、又は違反するおそれがあると認めるときは、機構に対し、当該行為の是正のため必要な措置を講ずることを求めることができる。
  <sup>art-797/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-797/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-797/par-1</sup>
  If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that an act of the Organization, or of its officers or employees or members of the representatives' meeting, violates, or is likely to violate, this Act, an order under this Act, or the articles of incorporation, the Minister may request the Organization to take the measures necessary to correct that act.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  機構は、前項の規定による総務大臣の求めがあつたときは、速やかに当該行為の是正その他の必要と認める措置を講ずるとともに、当該措置の内容を総務大臣に報告しなければならない。
  <sup>art-797/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-797/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-797/par-2</sup>
  When the Organization has received a request from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications under the preceding paragraph, it must promptly take measures to correct the act concerned and other measures that it finds necessary, and report the content of those measures to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-797/par-2: 前項 → 地方税法 第七百九十七条第一項 (Article 797, paragraph (1)), art-797/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-797/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-797/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 地方税法 第七百九十七条第二項（違法行為等の是正） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-797/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-797/par-2
- 地方税法 第八百二条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-802/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-802/par-1/item-8

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 地方税法 — the text in force from 2026-10-16 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/325AC0000000226/20261016_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-27
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 地方税法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/487), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-187, translated 2026-10-28
- This site's parser, version 218 — 地方税法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-27
