Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Transitional Measures Concerning the Designation and Notification of Individual Numbers
第三条（個人番号の指定及び通知に関する経過措置）
The mayor of a municipality must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, designate, as the Individual Number of a person who is actually recorded in the basic resident register kept by that municipality on the day on which this Act comes into effect (referred to as "the effective date" in the following paragraph), the number to become the Individual Number notified by the Agency pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4), and notify that person of that Individual Number by means of a notification card.
When the mayor of a municipality has entered a residence certificate code in the residence certificate, pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-3, paragraph (1) of the Residential Basic Book Act, for a person whose residence certificate had a residence certificate code entered in it before the effective date and who is not recorded in the basic resident register of any municipality on the effective date, the mayor must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, designate, as that person's Individual Number, the number to become the Individual Number notified by the Agency pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4), and notify that person of that Individual Number.
When the mayor of a municipality, for a person who has not been recorded in a basic resident register since the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Residential Basic Book Act (Act No. 133 of 1999) came into effect, has entered a residence certificate code in the residence certificate pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, the mayor must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, designate, as that person's Individual Number, the number to become the Individual Number notified by the Agency pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph, and notify that person of that Individual Number.
The provisions of Article 7, paragraph (3) and Article 8 apply mutatis mutandis to the cases referred to in the preceding three paragraphs.
第七条第三項及び第八条の規定は、前三項の場合について準用する。
If a person who is engaged or was engaged in processes related to the designation or notification of Individual Numbers under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) or the generation or notification of the number to become the Individual Number under the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph provides, without justifiable grounds, Specific Personal Information Files containing information classified as individual secrets that were handled in the course of the operation (including Specific Personal Information Files of which all or part is copied or processed), this person is punished by imprisonment for four years or less, by a fine of two million yen or less, or by both.
第一項から第三項までの規定による個人番号の指定若しくは通知又は前項において準用する第八条第二項の規定による個人番号とすべき番号の生成若しくは通知に関する事務に従事する者又は従事していた者が、正当な理由がないのに、その業務に関して取り扱った個人の秘密に属する事項が記録された特定個人情報ファイル（その全部又は一部を複製し、又は加工した特定個人情報ファイルを含む。）を提供したときは、四年以下の拘禁刑若しくは二百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
If the person specified in the preceding paragraph provides or misappropriates the Individual Numbers that same person has learnt in the course of the operation for the purpose of acquiring an unlawful economic benefit for the same or a third party, said person is punished by imprisonment for three years or less, by a fine of one million five hundred thousand yen or less, or by both.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs also apply to a person who commits the crimes under those paragraphs outside Japan.
前二項の規定は、日本国外においてこれらの項の罪を犯した者にも適用する。