Proactive Public Administration
What is proactive public administration in the field of legislation? Developing effective and flexible standards on drafting legislation for providing proactive public services and taking an active approach in statutory interpretation
Making efforts to spread proactive public administration in the field of legislation, as a government agency over- seeing proactive public administration
Arranging guidelines on proactive public administration in the field of legislation
We review in advance administrative rules (such as instructions, established rules, notifications, etc) that act as hidden regulations on people’s living and economic activities because they do not go through Legislative Examination by the Ministry of Government Legislation, and improve them. (Pre-review System on Administrative Rules)
① Standards on and cases of active statutory interpretation, ② Methods to guarantee autonomy to new industries, ③ Areas that can be regulated under subordinate statutes are included in the guidelines.
Providing an education about the guidelines on proactive public administration by visiting public officials of central government agencies and local governments.
Internal endeavor to ensure proactive public administration.
Finding and introducing the best examples of providing proactive public administration in the field of legislation
Main examples
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Statutory interpretation
We interpreted that winning an award in domestic contests organized by local governments as well as the central government can be accepted as a prize-winning record that is one of the qualifications for participating in a public work.
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Making subordinate statutes
Initially, matters related to a prior consultation system on decentralization were supposed to be prescribed in the Local Autonomy Act. However, because the matters are related to the govern- ment’s legislative procedure, they were prescribed in the subordinate statute and enforced without delay.
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Providing opinions on municipal ordinances
We provided opinions that a municipal ordinance may prescribe the following matter: in the case a citizen pays a usage fee by using “Zeropay” imposed by a person entrusted with management of public facilities according to the Public Property Act, the person entrusted may deduct a certain amount from the fee.
Public Participation
We are carrying out a “Project of Revising the Existing Laws through Public Participation” and a “Public Participating Examination System” to enhance the people’s understading in the legislative process.
Modifying Discriminatory Statutes
We are implementing a “Project of Modifying Discriminatory Laws” to discover discriminatory aspects in existing in statutes and eliminate them systematically. This project contributes to protecting the vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.
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We operate innovative systems for proactive public administration, such as eliminating a blind spot that blocks people to have access to legal information and making open data of legal information more accessible.