Article 30-38Restriction, etc. on the Use of a Resident Record Code

①No 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.

③No 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.

④If 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.

⑤If 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 prefectural council prescribed in Article 30-40, paragraph (1), set a time limit and order that person to comply with the recommendation.