This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 3 years from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items.

The head of an administrative organ, etc. may carry out the preparatory acts necessary for the implementation of this Act even before the date on which this Act (or, for the provisions listed in the items of the preceding Article, those respective provisions; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) comes into effect.

①The mayor of a municipality must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, designate, as the Individual Number of a person who is actually recorded in the basic resident register kept by that municipality on the day on which this Act comes into effect (referred to as "the effective date" in the following paragraph), the number to become the Individual Number notified by the Agency pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4), and notify that person of that Individual Number by means of a notification card.

②When the mayor of a municipality has entered a residence certificate code in the residence certificate, pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-3, paragraph (1) of the Residential Basic Book Act, for a person whose residence certificate had a residence certificate code entered in it before the effective date and who is not recorded in the basic resident register of any municipality on the effective date, the mayor must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, designate, as that person's Individual Number, the number to become the Individual Number notified by the Agency pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4), and notify that person of that Individual Number.

③When the mayor of a municipality, for a person who has not been recorded in a basic resident register since the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Residential Basic Book Act (Act No. 133 of 1999) came into effect, has entered a residence certificate code in the residence certificate pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, the mayor must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, designate, as that person's Individual Number, the number to become the Individual Number notified by the Agency pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph, and notify that person of that Individual Number.

④The provisions of Article 7, paragraph (3) and Article 8 apply mutatis mutandis to the cases referred to in the preceding three paragraphs.

⑤If a person who is engaged or was engaged in processes related to the designation or notification of Individual Numbers under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) or the generation or notification of the number to become the Individual Number under the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph provides, without justifiable grounds, Specific Personal Information Files containing information classified as individual secrets that were handled in the course of the operation (including Specific Personal Information Files of which all or part is copied or processed), this person is punished by imprisonment for four years or less, by a fine of two million yen or less, or by both.

⑥If the person specified in the preceding paragraph provides or misappropriates the Individual Numbers that same person has learnt in the course of the operation for the purpose of acquiring an unlawful economic benefit for the same or a third party, said person is punished by imprisonment for three years or less, by a fine of one million five hundred thousand yen or less, or by both.

⑦The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs also apply to a person who commits the crimes under those paragraphs outside Japan.

①Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1), the Japan Pension Service may not use Individual Numbers to handle the processes listed in the right-hand column of Appended Table 1 during the period from the date on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect until the date specified by Cabinet Order on or before May 31, 2017.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 19, items (vii) and (viii), during the period from the date on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect until the date specified by Cabinet Order on or before November 30, 2017, the Japan Pension Service is not to fall under the Person Referring Information and the Person Providing Information, and the Person Providing Information for Processes under Ordinances.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 40, paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) and Article 45, paragraph (2) during the period until the day before the day on which one year elapses from the date on which the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (referred to as the "lapse date" in this Article), the term "six" in Article 40, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "two", the term "three" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "one", the phrase "the commissioners are to include" in paragraph (4) of that Article with "the commissioners are to be appointed from among", and the phrase "three or more" in Article 45, paragraph (2) with "two"; and with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 40, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 45, paragraph (2) during the period from the lapse date until the day before the day on which one year elapses from the lapse date, the term "six" in Article 40, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "four", the term "three" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "two", and the phrase "three or more" in Article 45, paragraph (2) with "two or more".

Beyond what is prescribed in Articles 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

①The Government is to, approximately three years after this Act comes into effect, review the expansion of the scope of the use of Individual Numbers and of the provision of Specific Personal Information using the Information Providing Network System, enabling the Information Providing Network System to be utilized for the provision of information other than Specific Personal Information, and other matters concerning the provisions of this Act, taking into account the status of enforcement of this Act and other circumstances, and if it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review while gaining citizens' understanding.

②In order to expand the range of measures that a person who receives the provision of an Individual Number from the person themselves pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) may choose as measures for confirming that the person making that provision is the person themselves, the Government is to review the necessary technical matters in a timely manner, and if it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review.

③The Government is to, approximately one year after this Act comes into effect, establish the Information Provision Record Disclosure System (meaning an electronic data processing system connecting, through a telecommunications line, the computer used by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications and the computer used by a person who makes to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications a request for disclosure, under the provisions of Article 12 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information Held by Administrative Organs as replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (2), of Specific Personal Information recorded in the record provided for in Article 23, paragraph (3), which is established and operated so that the person may make that request for disclosure and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may give that person the notice under the provisions of Article 18 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information Held by Administrative Organs; the same applies in this paragraph and the following paragraph), and is to take the measures necessary to promote its use, giving consideration also to age, physical conditions and other factors that restrict the use of the Information Provision Record Disclosure System.

④After the establishment of the Information Provision Record Disclosure System, the Government is to, in a timely manner, from the viewpoint of improving the convenience of citizens and with a view to its use in the private sector, review enabling the following procedures or acts to be carried out by using the Information Provision Record Disclosure System, and simplifying, according to those procedures or acts, the measures for confirming that a person who actually uses a computer connected to the Information Provision Record Disclosure System through a telecommunications line in order to carry out those procedures or acts is the person who is to carry them out, and is to take the required measures based on the results of that review.

⑤When the Government considers the introduction of measures for refundable tax credits (meaning a scheme that appropriately combines benefits and tax credits, or anything equivalent to it), it is to consider establishing the system necessary for implementing the processes related to those measures by utilizing the system concerning the use of Individual Numbers with regard to information on individual income taxation that is not held by national tax offices, so that those processes are implemented accurately.

⑥The Government is to, in a timely manner, from the viewpoint of contributing to the improvement of the convenience of residents through the optimization of administrative operations in local governments, and if it finds it necessary in light of local circumstances, carry out for local governments the provision of necessary information, advice and other cooperation concerning the promotion of the sharing or consolidation of the information systems of multiple local governments.