Article 1When conducting proceedings on the date of an oral opinion statement by the means prescribed in Article 8 of the Order for Enforcement of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (referred to as "the Order" below ) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18 and Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Order following the deemed replacement of terms), the proceedings are to be conducted by hearing the opinions of the persons concerned with proceedings (when the administrative agency, etc. reaching the disposition is the reviewing agency in the case prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (3) of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014; referred to as "the Act" below), the requestor for review and the intervenors, and for a request for re-investigation, the requestor for re-investigation and the intervenors; the same applies below in this Article) and by designating a place where necessary equipment for the proceedings has been installed and a place that the review officer (the reviewing agency in the case prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (3) of the Act, the administrative agency reaching the disposition in the case of a request for re-investigation, or the re-examining agency when the re-examining agency is any of the agencies stated in the items of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 66, paragraph (1) of the Act) finds appropriate for each person concerned with proceedings.

Article 2Deleted

Article 3The method specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Order (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Order following the deemed replacement of terms) is to be either of the following methods:

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

Article 5The provisions of Article 1 apply mutatis mutandis to the statement of opinions under the provisions of Article 75, paragraph (1) of the Act, and the provisions of Article 3 apply mutatis mutandis to the delivery under the provisions of Article 78, paragraph (1) of the Act. In such a case, the terms stated in the middle column of the following Appended Table provided in the provisions stated in the left-hand column of that Table are deemed to be replaced with the terms stated in the right-hand column of that Table.