Article 21 (1) In the case a lawsuit demanding the rescission of a Disclosure Decision, etc. or the rescission of a determination or decision regarding the objection to a Disclosure Decision, etc. (referred to as an Information Disclosure Lawsuit in the following paragraph and in paragraph 2 of the Supplementary Provisions) is brought to the court of special jurisdiction prescribed in the provision of Article 12, paragraph 4 of the Administrative Case Litigation Act (Act No. 139 of 1962), if, notwithstanding the provision of Article 12, paragraph 5 of the same Act, an appeal lawsuit ( which means an appeal lawsuit prescribed in Article3, paragraph 1 in the same Act; the same shall apply in the following paragraph.) against a Disclosure Decision etc. regarding the same, the same type of or similar Administrative Documents or against a determination or decision regarding the objection against such a Disclosure Decision etc., is pending in another court, the said court of special jurisdiction may, when it finds it reasonable in consideration of the addresses or locations of the parties, the addresses of witnesses who shall be examined, characteristics common to the points at issue or the evidence, and other circumstances, may in response to a petition or on its own authority transfer the whole lawsuit or a part of it to the other court or a court prescribed Article 12, paragraphs 1 to 3 of the same Act.