Article 1When undertaking proceedings on the date of stating an opinion orally by the method prescribed in Article 8 of the Order for Enforcement of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Order") (including the cases as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms in Article 18 and Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Order), a review officer (or the reviewing agency in the case prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (3) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014; hereinafter referred to as the "Act"); the agency reaching the disposition in the case of a request for re-investigation; or the re-examining agency when the re-examining agency falls under any of the agencies set forth in the items of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 66, paragraph (1) of the Act) should hear the opinions of the persons concerned with proceedings (when the agency, etc. reaching the disposition falls under the reviewing agency in the case prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (3) of the Act, meaning the requestor for review and intervenors, and in the case of a request for re-investigation, meaning the requestor for re-investigation and intervenors; hereinafter, the same applies in this Article) and designate a place where equipment necessary for undertaking proceedings is installed and that the review officer finds appropriate for each of the persons concerned with proceedings.

Article 2Deleted

Article 3The method specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Order (including the cases as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Order) is to be either of the following:

Article 4The documents specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications prescribed in Article 16 of the Order (including the cases as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Order) are to be as follows (including electronic or magnetic records and excluding those falling under the case record):

Article 5The provisions of Article 1 apply mutatis mutandis to the statement of opinions under Article 75, paragraph (1) of the Act, and the provisions of Article 3 apply mutatis mutandis to the delivery under Article 78, paragraph (1) of the Act. In this case, in the provisions set forth in the left-hand column of the following Table, the terms set forth in the middle column of the relevant table are deemed to be replaced with the terms set forth respectively in the right-hand column of the relevant table.