Article 7Designation and Notice
第七条（指定及び通知）
When mayors of municipalities (including mayors of special wards; the same applies hereinafter) record the residence certificate code on the residence certificate pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-3, paragraph (2) of the Residential Basic Book Act, the respective mayor is to, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the following Article, promptly designate the number that was notified by the Agency as the number to become the Individual Number of the person and must notify the person of said Individual Number pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Orders.
市町村長（特別区の区長を含む。以下同じ。）は、住民基本台帳法第三十条の三第二項の規定により住民票に住民票コードを記載したときは、政令で定めるところにより、速やかに、次条第二項の規定により機構から通知された個人番号とすべき番号をその者の個人番号として指定し、その者に対し、当該個人番号を通知しなければならない。
If the mayor of a municipality finds that the Individual Number of a person that is recorded on the basic resident register held by said municipality (including special wards; hereinafter the same applies) is likely to be leaked and used without authorization, the mayor must, pursuant to Cabinet Orders, on the request of the person or ex officio, designate the number, that was notified by the Agency pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the following Article as being to become as an Individual Number, as the Individual Number of the person in lieu of the prior Individual Number of the person and promptly notify the person of said Individual Number.
When the mayor of a municipality makes notification pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, in order enable the person who received said notification to have the Individual Number issued without problems, the mayor is to provide information concerning said issuing procedures and take other necessary measures.
In addition to what is provided for in the preceding three paragraphs, necessary matters pertaining to the notification under paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) are provided for by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
Article 8Generation of the Number to Become the Individual Number
第八条（個人番号とすべき番号の生成）
When the mayor of a municipality, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, designates an Individual Number, the mayor is to, in advance, notify the agency of the residence certificate code recorded in the residence certificate pertaining to the person to whom said designation is intended to be made and request that the Agency generate the number to become the Individual Number.
When the Agency is requested by the mayor of a municipality to generate a number to become the Individual Number pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, pursuant to Cabinet Orders, the Agency is to use an electronic data processing system that is established pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph, generate a number that falls under the requirements below, and promptly notify said mayor of the municipality thereof:
it is different from any other Individual Numbers (including prior Individual Numbers as set forth in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article);
it is obtained by converting the residence certificate code of the preceding paragraph; and
it does not follow a pattern by means of which the residence certificate code of the preceding item can be restored.
The Agency is to generate numbers to be treated as Individual Numbers pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and establish an electronic data processing system in order to manage the generation of said numbers and the notifications to be made to the mayors of the municipalities.
第九条（利用範囲）
Administrative organs, local governments, incorporated administrative agencies, etc. and other persons handling administrative processes as listed in the left-hand column of each row of the Appended Table (if, pursuant to laws and regulations, there is a person who implements all or part of the processes listed in the right-hand column of the relevant row of said table, or a person specified by order of the competent ministry as a person handling processes specified by order of the competent ministry as processes equivalent to said processes (excluding processes based on the provisions of an individual Act, and limited to processes that conform to the standards specified by Cabinet Order, including that their nature is the same as that of the processes listed in the right-hand column of the relevant row of said table) (referred to as "quasi-statutory work" in this paragraph) (such a person being referred to as a "handler of quasi-statutory work" in Article 19, item (viii)), it includes this person; the same applies in paragraph (4)) may use Individual Numbers to the extent necessary to search and manage Personal Information efficiently in the Specific Personal Information File held by the person with regard to the handling of processes listed in the right-hand column of the relevant row of said table (including quasi-statutory work; the same applies in that item). The same applies to a person to whom all or part of said processes is entrusted.
別表の各項の上欄に掲げる行政機関、地方公共団体、独立行政法人等その他の行政事務を処理する者（法令の規定により同表の当該各項の下欄に掲げる事務の全部若しくは一部を行うこととされている者又は当該事務に準ずる事務（個別の法律の規定に基づく事務を除き、当該事務の性質が同表の当該各項の下欄に掲げる事務と同一であることその他政令で定める基準に適合する事務に限る。）として主務省令で定めるもの（以下この項において「準法定事務」という。）を処理する者として主務省令で定めるもの（第十九条第八号において「準法定事務処理者」という。）がある場合にあっては、その者を含む。第四項において同じ。）は、同表の当該各項の下欄に掲げる事務（準法定事務を含む。同号において同じ。）の処理に関して保有する特定個人情報ファイルにおいて個人情報を効率的に検索し、及び管理するために必要な限度で個人番号を利用することができる。当該事務の全部又は一部の委託を受けた者も、同様とする。
The heads of local governments and other executive bodies may use Individual Numbers to the extent necessary to search and manage Personal Information efficiently in the Specific Personal Information File held by them with regard to the handling of processes related to welfare, health or medical care and other social security matters; local taxes (meaning the local taxes set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Local Tax Act (Act No. 226 of 1950); the same applies hereinafter); or disaster prevention and other processes that are provided for by Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance. The same applies to a person to whom all or part of said processes is entrusted.
地方公共団体の長その他の執行機関は、福祉、保健若しくは医療その他の社会保障、地方税（地方税法（昭和二十五年法律第二百二十六号）第一条第一項第四号に規定する地方税をいう。以下同じ。）又は防災に関する事務その他の事務であって条例で定めるものの処理に関して保有する特定個人情報ファイルにおいて個人情報を効率的に検索し、及び管理するために必要な限度で個人番号を利用することができる。当該事務の全部又は一部の委託を受けた者も、同様とする。
The Minister of Justice may use information provision personal identification codes to the extent necessary to search and manage Personal Information efficiently in the Specific Personal Information File held by the Minister with regard to the handling of processes concerning the provision under Article 19, item (viii) or item (ix) of Family Register Related Information (meaning, out of the information concerning the existence or non-existence of a parent-child relationship or any other status relationship between a person recorded in the duplicate of a family register or of a removed family register (limited to one prepared on magnetic disk (including an object that can reliably record certain matters by a method equivalent thereto) pursuant to the provisions of Article 119 of the Family Register Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and in Article 45-2, paragraph (1)) (hereinafter referred to as a "person recorded in a family register, etc." in this paragraph) and another person recorded in a family register, etc., information concerning the formation of marriage or any other status relationship, and other information concerning a person recorded in a family register, etc. that can be created by performing computer processing, etc. (meaning computer processing (meaning the input, accumulation, editing, processing, correction, updating, search, erasure or output of information performed by using a computer, or any other processing similar thereto) and other measures accompanying it that are specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter) of the information recorded in that duplicate, the information specified by Ministry of Justice Order as information to be provided under Article 19, item (viii) or item (ix), which contains in its content an information provision personal identification code (meaning a code identifying a specific individual that, to the extent necessary to manage the provision of Specific Personal Information for Use under item (viii) or item (ix) of that Article and to search for that Specific Personal Information for Use, is used in place of an Individual Number as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (5), and that is an Individual Number as set forth in paragraph (9) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter); the same applies hereinafter). The same applies to a person to whom all or part of said processes is entrusted.
法務大臣は、第十九条第八号又は第九号の規定による戸籍関係情報（戸籍又は除かれた戸籍（戸籍法第百十九条の規定により磁気ディスク（これに準ずる方法により一定の事項を確実に記録することができる物を含む。）をもって調製されたものに限る。以下この項及び第四十五条の二第一項において同じ。）の副本に記録されている情報の電子計算機処理等（電子計算機処理（電子計算機を使用して行われる情報の入力、蓄積、編集、加工、修正、更新、検索、消去、出力又はこれらに類する処理をいう。）その他これに伴う政令で定める措置をいう。以下同じ。）を行うことにより作成することができる戸籍又は除かれた戸籍の副本に記録されている者（以下この項において「戸籍等記録者」という。）についての他の戸籍等記録者との間の親子関係の存否その他の身分関係の存否に関する情報、婚姻その他の身分関係の形成に関する情報その他の情報のうち、第十九条第八号又は第九号の規定により提供するものとして法務省令で定めるものであって、情報提供用個人識別符号（同条第八号又は第九号の規定による利用特定個人情報の提供を管理し、及び当該利用特定個人情報を検索するために必要な限度で第二条第五項に規定する個人番号に代わって用いられる特定の個人を識別する符号であって、同条第九項に規定する個人番号であるものをいう。以下同じ。）をその内容に含むものをいう。以下同じ。）の提供に関する事務の処理に関して保有する特定個人情報ファイルにおいて個人情報を効率的に検索し、及び管理するために必要な限度で情報提供用個人識別符号を利用することができる。当該事務の全部又は一部の委託を受けた者も、同様とする。
Pursuant to Article 48 or Article 197, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act (Act No. 70 of 1922); Article 59, paragraph (1), (3) or (4) of the Inheritance Tax Act (Act No. 73 of 1950); Article 27, Article 29, paragraph (3), or Article 98, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 115 of 1954); Article 9-4-2, paragraph (2), Article 29-2, paragraph (6) or (7), Article 37-11-3, paragraph (7), Article 37-14, paragraph (35), Article 70-2-2, paragraph (19), or Article 70-2-3, paragraph (16) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation (Act No. 26 of 1957); Article 74-13-2 or Article 74-13-3 of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes (Act No. 66 of 1962); Articles 225 through 228-3-2 of the Income Tax Act (Act No. 33 of 1965); Article 7 of the Employment Insurance Act (Act No. 116 of 1974); or Article 4, paragraph (1) or Article 4-3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Submission of Statement of Overseas Wire Transfers for Purpose of Securing Proper Domestic Taxation (Act No. 110 of 1997); Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Management, etc. of Deposit and Savings Accounts through the Use of Individual Numbers Based on the Intent of Depositors and Savers (Act No. 39 of 2021); and other provisions of laws and regulations or Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances, a person who was put in charge of handling processes that require the use of another person's Individual Number, such as the submission of documents containing another person's Individual Number, and that are necessary for handling the processes set forth in paragraph (1) or (2), handled by administrative organs, local governments, incorporated administrative agencies, etc. and other persons implementing administrative processes listed in the left-hand column of each row of the Appended Table or by the chiefs of local governments and other executive bodies, may use Individual Numbers to the extent necessary to implement said processes. The same applies to a person to whom all or part of said processes is entrusted.
健康保険法（大正十一年法律第七十号）第四十八条若しくは第百九十七条第一項、相続税法（昭和二十五年法律第七十三号）第五十九条第一項、第三項若しくは第四項、厚生年金保険法（昭和二十九年法律第百十五号）第二十七条、第二十九条第三項若しくは第九十八条第一項、租税特別措置法（昭和三十二年法律第二十六号）第九条の四の二第二項、第二十九条の二第六項若しくは第七項、第三十七条の十一の三第七項、第三十七条の十四第三十五項、第七十条の二の二第十九項若しくは第七十条の二の三第十六項、国税通則法（昭和三十七年法律第六十六号）第七十四条の十三の二若しくは第七十四条の十三の三、所得税法（昭和四十年法律第三十三号）第二百二十五条から第二百二十八条の三の二まで、雇用保険法（昭和四十九年法律第百十六号）第七条又は内国税の適正な課税の確保を図るための国外送金等に係る調書の提出等に関する法律（平成九年法律第百十号）第四条第一項若しくは第四条の三第一項、預貯金者の意思に基づく個人番号の利用による預貯金口座の管理等に関する法律（令和三年法律第三十九号）第六条第一項その他の法令又は条例の規定により、別表の各項の上欄に掲げる行政機関、地方公共団体、独立行政法人等その他の行政事務を処理する者又は地方公共団体の長その他の執行機関による第一項又は第二項に規定する事務の処理に関して必要とされる他人の個人番号を記載した書面の提出その他の他人の個人番号を利用した事務を行うものとされた者は、当該事務を行うために必要な限度で個人番号を利用することができる。当該事務の全部又は一部の委託を受けた者も、同様とする。
If a disaster of extreme severity specified under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Financial Support to Deal with the Designated Disaster of Extreme Severity (Act No. 150 of 1962) occurs and in other cases specified by Cabinet Order equivalent thereto, among the persons who are allowed to use Individual Numbers pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the persons who are specified in Article 225, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii), and items (iv) through (vi) of the Income Tax Act may, pursuant to Digital Agency Order, use Individual Numbers to the extent necessary for making the payment of money based on a contract that has been concluded in advance.
前項の規定により個人番号を利用することができることとされている者のうち所得税法第二百二十五条第一項第一号、第二号及び第四号から第六号までに掲げる者は、激甚災害に対処するための特別の財政援助等に関する法律（昭和三十七年法律第百五十号）第二条第一項に規定する激甚災害が発生したときその他これに準ずる場合として政令で定めるときは、デジタル庁令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ締結した契約に基づく金銭の支払を行うために必要な限度で個人番号を利用することができる。
In addition to what is provided for in the preceding paragraphs, a person who falls under any of the items from item (xiii) to (xvii) of Article 19 of this Act and is provided with Specific Personal Information may use Individual Numbers to the extent necessary to accomplish the purpose of said provision.
前各項に定めるもののほか、第十九条第十三号から第十七号までのいずれかに該当して特定個人情報の提供を受けた者は、その提供を受けた目的を達成するために必要な限度で個人番号を利用することができる。