No person other than the mayor of a municipality, the prefectural governor, the Agency, or the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "municipal mayors, etc.") may demand that a person other than a person belonging to the same household as that person (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "third party") notify that person of a resident record code entered on a certificate of residence pertaining to that third party or to a person other than that third party.
No person other than municipal mayors, etc. may, in connection with an act that the person carries out in the course of business, demand that a third party who intends to make, or who makes, an offer to the person for a sale, a lease, an employment, or any other contract (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as a "contract"), or a third party who has concluded a contract with the person, notify the person of a resident record code entered on a certificate of residence pertaining to that third party or to a person other than that third party.
No person other than municipal mayors, etc. may, in the course of business, compile a database (meaning a collection of information concerning a third party, including a resident record code entered on a certificate of residence pertaining to that third party, that is systematically organized so that such information can be searched for using a computer; the same applies below in this paragraph) in which resident record codes are recorded, where the information recorded in that database is scheduled to be provided to another person.
If an act in violation of the preceding two paragraphs has been committed, and the prefectural governor finds that there is a risk that the person who committed that act will further and repeatedly commit an act in violation of those provisions, the prefectural governor may recommend that the person who committed that act discontinue that act, or recommend that the person take the measures necessary to ensure that act is discontinued.
都道府県知事は、前二項の規定に違反する行為が行われた場合において、当該行為をした者が更に反復してこれらの規定に違反する行為をするおそれがあると認めるときは、当該行為をした者に対し、当該行為を中止することを勧告し、又は当該行為が中止されることを確保するために必要な措置を講ずることを勧告することができる。
If a person who has received a recommendation under the preceding paragraph does not comply with the recommendation, the prefectural governor may, after hearing the opinion of the council of the prefecture prescribed in Article 30-40, paragraph (1), set a time limit and order that person to comply with the recommendation.
都道府県知事は、前項の規定による勧告を受けた者がその勧告に従わないときは、第三十条の四十第一項に規定する都道府県の審議会の意見を聴いて、その者に対し、期限を定めて、当該勧告に従うべきことを命ずることができる。