# Rules of the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会規則, こじんじょうほうほごいいんかいきそく)

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- Group: Institutions, offices and documents
- URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/ppc-rules
- In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/ppc-rules
- Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04

Rules the Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会) makes on the matters in its charge, to carry out an Act or a Cabinet Order (政令) or under a special delegation from one (Act on the Protection of Personal Information, Article 145). The Commission is set up under Article 49, paragraph (3) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office (内閣府設置法) and comes under the Prime Minister (Article 130). It is made up of a chair and eight members, four of them part-time, whom the Prime Minister appoints with the consent of both Houses of the Diet, and they exercise their authority independently (Articles 133 and 134). Its work includes supervising how businesses handle personal information, monitoring how administrative organs and similar bodies handle it, and monitoring or supervising how specific personal information (特定個人情報) is handled (Article 132) — personal information that contains an individual number (個人番号), or a code used in its place other than a resident record code (Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, Article 2, paragraph (9)). Where that Act leaves a detail to be set by these Rules (個人情報保護委員会規則で定める), the Rules are where it is written.

Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer.

## Provisions and sources it draws on

- [Act on the Protection of Personal Information, Arts. 130, 132, 133, 134, 145](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000057) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act
- [Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures, Art. 2](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/425AC0000000027) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act

## Where the laws use it

2 laws in force use it in this sense, in 38 provisions; there the word opens this explanation.

- [Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報の保護に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act): 32 provisions, among them [Article 20](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-20), [Article 26](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-26), [Article 27](https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-27)
- [Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act): 6 provisions, among them [Article 19](https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-19), [Article 26](https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-26), [Article 28](https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-28)

## Related

- [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act)
- [Cabinet Order (政令, せいれい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/cabinet-order)
- [The Cabinet (内閣, ないかく)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/cabinet)
- [Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣, ないかくそうりだいじん)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/prime-minister)
- [Personal Information Protection Commission (個人情報保護委員会, こじんじょうほうほごいいんかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/personal-information-protection-commission)

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## Sources

- Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04)
- Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text
- English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (2 records)