Chapter V Obligations of Administrative Entities (Articles 120 to 129)
The law as Act Partially Amending the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, etc. (Act No. 56 of 2026) leaves it, with the words it changes marked.
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Article 120第百二十条
Cancellation of a Contract for the Use of Anonymized Personal Information an Administrative Entity Holds(行政機関等匿名加工情報の利用に関する契約の解除)
Article 120, paragraph (1)
If a person that has concluded a contract for the use of anonymized personal information an administrative entity holds, pursuant to the provisions of Article 115, falls under one of the following items, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity may cancel the contract:
the contract has been concluded by deception or other wrongful means;
偽りその他不正の手段により当該契約を締結したとき。
Article 120, paragraph (1), item (ii)
the person falls under one of the items of Article 113 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 118, paragraph (2));
Except cases based on laws and regulations, in handling anonymized personal information an administrative entity holds, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must not collate that anonymized personal information with other information in order to identify a person identifiable by personal information that was used to prepare that anonymized personal information.
Article 121, paragraph (2)(識別行為の禁止等)(Prohibition of Identifying Persons)Changed
An administrative organ's head or administrative entity must take necessary measures for proper management of the anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds, deleted information prescribed in Article 109, paragraph (4), and information on the method of the processing as performed under Article 116, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "anonymized personal information and other related information of an administrative entity" in this Article and the following Article 122), in accordance with the criteria specified by Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission as necessary for preventing the leaking of anonymized personal information and other related information of an administrative entity.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis if an administrative entity entrusts (including entrustment via two or more layers) a person to handle anonymized personal information and other related information of the administrative entity, and that person performs those entrusted activities.
Article 121-2, paragraph (1)(連絡等が可能な行政機関等匿名加工情報の不適正な取扱いの禁止)Prohibition of Inappropriate Handling of Anonymized Personal Information the Administrative Entity Holds Enabling Contact, etc.Added
The provisions of Article 72-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the handling, by an administrative organ's head or administrative entity, of anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds that contains an identifier or the equivalent set forth in any of the items of Article 2, paragraph (8) (including information that can be readily collated with other information and thereby enables that identifier or the equivalent to be identified), and to the handling of that anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds in cases in which a person that has been entrusted (including entrustment via two or more layers) by an administrative entity with the handling of that anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds conducts the entrusted business.
An employee or former employee of an administrative entity handling anonymized personal information and other related information of the administrative entity, a person engaged in or formerly engaged in the entrusted activities referred to in Article 121, paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, or a staffing agencydispatched worker or former staffing agency worker that handlesthat is or was engaged in handling anonymized personal information and other related information of an administrative entity must not disclose anonymized personal information and other related information of an administrative entity acquired in the course of that person's work to other persons without reason, or use that information for an unjust purpose.
Except cases based on laws and regulations, before providing anonymized personal information (excluding anonymized personal information an administrative entity holds; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) to a third party, an administrative entity must disclose the categories of information on an individual that is contained in anonymized personal information it will provide to the third party, and the means of providing this, and state to that third party explicitly to the effect that the information it will provide is anonymized personal information, pursuant to Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission.
Except cases based on laws and regulations, in handling anonymized personal information, an administrative entity must neither obtain information relating to the identifier or the equivalent, individual identification codes, or information on the method of processing as performed under Article 43, paragraph (1) that has been deleted from the personal information, nor collate that anonymized personal information with other information, in order to identify a person identifiable by the personal information that was used to prepare the anonymized personal information.
An administrative entity must take necessary measures for proper management of the anonymized personal information in accordance with the criteria specified by Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission as necessary for preventing the leaking of anonymized personal information.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis if an administrative entity entrusts (including entrustment via two or more layers) a person to handle its anonymized personal information and that person performs those entrusted activities.
Article 123, paragraph (5)(匿名加工情報の取扱いに係る義務)(Obligations on the Handling of Anonymized Personal Information)Added
The provisions of Article 72-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the handling, by an administrative organ's head or administrative entity, of anonymized personal information that contains an identifier or the equivalent set forth in any of the items of Article 2, paragraph (8) (including information that can be readily collated with other information and thereby enables that identifier or the equivalent to be identified).
The provisions of Section 4 do not apply to personal information an administrative entity holds in relation to a judgment in a criminal case or juvenile protection case, a disposition executed by a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer, or judicial police personnel, execution of a punishment or protective measure, post-incarceration rehabilitation services, or pardon (limited to personal information an administrative entity holds in relation to a person on whom that judgment or measure was delivered, a person towards whom the punishment or protective measure was executed, a person who applied for post-incarceration rehabilitation services, or a person who filed a petition for pardon).
Of the personal information an administrative entity holds (limited to information recorded in administrative or similar documents that exclusively contain the non-disclosure information prescribed in Article 5 of the Administrative Organs Information Disclosure Act, in Article 5 of the Administrative Organs Information Disclosure Act, or in the information disclosure ordinance), information that has yet to be classified or otherwise put in order and from which it is extremely difficult to retrieve particular personal information the administrative entity holds due to the existence of a very large amount of information relating to the same purpose of use is deemed as not being held by the administrative entity with respect to application of the provisions of Section 4 (excluding Subsection 4).
The provisions of this Chapter (excluding Section 1; Article 66, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph (2) of that Article (limited to the part relating to items (iv) and (v) (limited to the part relating to item (iv) of that paragraph)); Article 75; the preceding two Sections; paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; and Article 127), Article 176, Article 179 (excluding the part relating to business prescribed in Article 66, paragraph (2), items (iv) and (v) (limited to the part relating to item (iv) of that paragraph)), and Article 182 do not apply to the handling of personal information, pseudonymized personal information or information related to personal information by a person set forth in one of those items of Article 58, paragraph (2) in the business prescribed in those items.
In cases of the handling of personal information or anonymized personal information by a person set forth in one of the items of Article 58, paragraph (1), a person set forth in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be an incorporated administrative agency or other prescribed corporation; a person set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be a local incorporated administrative agency; and the provisions of Section 1, Article 75, the preceding two Sections, paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, Article 127, and the following Chapter through Chapter 8 (excluding Article 176, Article 179 and Article 182) apply.
Article 125, paragraph (3)(適用の特例)(Exception to Application)Changed
To apply the provisions of Article 98 to a person set forth in one of the items of paragraph (1) and (2) of Article 58 (limited to cases in which business prescribed in one of the items of that paragraph is conducted), the phrase "is held in violation of Article 61, paragraph (2), is handled in violation of Article 63, Article 71-2, or Article 72-3, paragraph (1), (5), or (9), is acquired in violation of Article 64, or is used in violation of Article 69, paragraphs (1) and (2)" in paragraph (1), item (i) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "is held in violation of Article 18, Article 19, Article 30-2, paragraph (4) or (9), Article 1930-3, or Article 31-3, paragraph (5), or is obtained in violation of Article 20"; and the term "Article 69, paragraphparagraphs (1) and (2) or, Article 71, paragraph (1), Article 71-2, or Article 72-3, paragraph (10)" in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 27, paragraph (1), Article 28, Article 30-2, paragraph (10) or (11), or Article 2831-3, paragraph (6) or (7)".
Responsibilities, etc. of Administrative Organs' Heads or Administrative Entities Concerning the Handling of Personal or Other Related Information of Minors
Article 125-2, paragraph (1)(未成年者の個人情報等の取扱いに関する行政機関の長等の責務等)Responsibilities, etc. of Administrative Organs' Heads or Administrative Entities Concerning the Handling of Personal or Other Related Information of MinorsAdded
When handling personal or other related information concerning minors, an administrative organ's head or administrative entity must endeavor to take necessary measures so as not to harm the rights or interests of minors, after giving primary consideration to their best interests in accordance with their age and degree of development.
Article 125-2, paragraph (2)(未成年者の個人情報等の取扱いに関する行政機関の長等の責務等)Responsibilities, etc. of Administrative Organs' Heads or Administrative Entities Concerning the Handling of Personal or Other Related Information of MinorsAdded
When making a request for disclosure, a request for correction, or a request for ceasing to use personal information (or, for the legal representative of the identifiable person under 16 years of age, when making a request for disclosure, a request for correction, or a request for ceasing to use personal information, or giving the consent under Article 69, paragraph (2), item (i) or Article 71, paragraph (1), as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 71-3), the legal representative of the identifiable person who is a minor must give primary consideration to the best interests of that identifiable person.
The head of an administrative organ may delegate the authority or processes prescribed in Section 2 through the preceding Section (excluding Article 74 and Section 4, Subsection 4) to employees of that administrative organ, pursuant to Cabinet Order (or in the case of an organ established under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet o in the case of the Board of Audit, pursuant to an order of those organs).
Provision of Information to a Person That Intends to Make a Request or Proposal(開示請求等をしようとする者に対する情報の提供等)
Article 127, paragraph (1)
In order to allow a person that intends to make a request for disclosure, a request for correction, a request for ceasing to use personal information, or a proposal under Article 112, paragraph (1) or Article 118, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as a "request or proposal" in this Article) to make that request or proposal easily and appropriately, an administrative organ's head or administrative entity is to provide information that contributes to specifying the personal information held by the administrative entity to which the head or entity in question belongs, and is also to take other adequate measures in consideration of convenience for the person that intends to make the request or proposal.
Article 128, paragraph (1)(行政機関等における個人情報等の取扱いに関する苦情処理)(Complaint Processing on the Handling of Personal or Other Related Information by an Administrative Entity)Changed
An administrative organ's head or administrative entity must endeavor to properly and expeditiously process a complaint on the handling of personal information, sensitive personal information, etc. for statistical compilation or similar analysis, provided personal information, etc. for statistical compilation or similar analysis, provided personal data, etc. for statistical compilation or similar analysis, pseudonymized personal information or anonymized personal information in that administrative entity.
Consultation with Council Established in a Local Government(地方公共団体に置く審議会等への諮問)
Article 129, paragraph (1)
When implementing measures referred to in Section 3 of Chapter III, a local government organ may consult a council or other collegial body as prescribed by local ordinance, if it is found necessary to hear the opinion based on expertise in order to ensure the proper handling of personal information.