Article 81 — Act on the Protection of Personal Information — japanlaw

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Article 81Information on the Existence of Personal Information an Administrative Entity Holds

第八十一条（保有個人情報の存否に関する情報）

If non-disclosure information is supposed to be disclosed by merely answering whether or not personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for disclosure exists, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity may refuse the request for disclosure, without making the existence or non-existence of that personal information clear.

開示請求に対し、当該開示請求に係る保有個人情報が存在しているか否かを答えるだけで、不開示情報を開示することとなるときは、行政機関の長等は、当該保有個人情報の存否を明らかにしないで、当該開示請求を拒否することができる。

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personal information the administrative entity holds
保有個人情報（ほゆうこじんじょうほう）
In Chapters V and VIII, personal information that an employee of an administrative entity (行政機関等) — including, for an incorporated administrative agency or other prescribed corporation (独立行政法人等) or a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人), an officer — has prepared or obtained in the course of their duties and that the entity holds for its employees' organizational use, limited to information recorded in administrative or similar documents (行政文書等).
行政機関等の職員（独立行政法人等及び地方独立行政法人にあっては、その役員を含む。以下この章及び第八章において同じ。）が職務上作成し、又は取得した個人情報であって、当該行政機関等の職員が組織的に利用するものとして、当該行政機関等が保有しているもの
Article 60, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
administrative organ's head or administrative entity
行政機関の長等（ぎょうせいきかんのちょうとう）
In Chapters V and VI, the head of an administrative organ (行政機関) — or, for an organ that a Cabinet Order (政令) names under Article 2, paragraph (8), item (iv) or (v), the person a Cabinet Order sets for it — an organ of a local government (地方公共団体の機関) other than its assembly, an incorporated administrative agency or other prescribed corporation (独立行政法人等) other than those listed in Appended Table 2 (別表第二), or a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人) other than those that Article 2, paragraph (11), item (iv) leaves out.
Article 63, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
request for disclosure
開示請求（かいじせいきゅう）
In Section 4 of Chapter V and Article 127, a request under Article 76, paragraph (1) to an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) to disclose personal information about oneself that its administrative entity holds (保有個人情報).
Article 76, paragraph (2)See it in the glossary
non-disclosure information
不開示情報（ふかいじじょうほう）
In Section 4 of Chapter V, the kinds of information listed in Article 78, paragraph (1), items (i) to (vii) that an administrative organ's head or administrative entity (行政機関の長等) need not disclose when a person asks for personal information held about them: in outline, information whose release would risk harm to the life, health, livelihood or property of the person requesting disclosure (開示請求者), information about other individuals, some information about corporations and businesses, and information whose release would risk harm to national security or foreign relations, public safety and order, frank deliberation within the public sector, or the proper conduct of public work.
Article 78, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary

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