# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百九条 (Article 109) - Law: 個人情報の保護に関する法律 (Act on the Protection of Personal Information), 平成十五年法律第五十七号 - English title "Act on the Protection of Personal Information": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百九条 (Article 109)（行政機関等匿名加工情報の作成及び提供等） — address `art-109` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百九条（行政機関等匿名加工情報の作成及び提供等） — (Preparation and Provision of Anonymized Personal Information Administrative Entities Hold) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、この節の規定に従い、行政機関等匿名加工情報（行政機関等匿名加工情報ファイルを構成するものに限る。以下この節において同じ。）を作成することができる。 art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109/par-1 An administrative organ's head or administrative entity may prepare anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds (limited to information constituting anonymized personal information files the administrative entity holds; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) pursuant to the provisions of this Section. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 行政機関の長等は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合を除き、行政機関等匿名加工情報を提供してはならない。 art-109/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109/par-2 Except cases that fall under any of the following items, an administrative organ's head or administrative entity must not provide other persons with anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 法令に基づく場合（この節の規定に従う場合を含む。） art-109/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109/par-2/item-1 cases based on laws and regulations (including cases subject to the provisions of this Section); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 保有個人情報を利用目的のために第三者に提供することができる場合において、当該保有個人情報を加工して作成した行政機関等匿名加工情報を当該第三者に提供するとき。 art-109/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109/par-2/item-2 cases in which the administrative organ's head or administrative entity is allowed to provide the personal information the administrative entity holds to a third party for a purpose of use, and the administrative organ's head or administrative entity seeks to provide the third party with anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds into which the personal information in question has been processed; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第六十九条の規定にかかわらず、行政機関の長等は、法令に基づく場合を除き、利用目的以外の目的のために削除情報（保有個人情報に該当するものに限る。）を自ら利用し、又は提供してはならない。 art-109/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109/par-3 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 69 and except cases based on laws and regulations, an administrative organ's head or administrative entity must not personally use or provide other persons with deleted information (limited to information constituting personal information the administrative entity holds) for any purpose other than the purpose of use. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前項の「削除情報」とは、行政機関等匿名加工情報の作成に用いた保有個人情報から削除した記述等及び個人識別符号をいう。 art-109/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109/par-4 The term "deleted information" in the preceding paragraph means an identifier or the equivalent or individual identification code deleted from personal information an administrative entity holds which was used to prepare anonymized personal information it holds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-109/par-3: 第六十九条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十九条 (Article 69), art-69 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-69 - art-109/par-4: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百九条第三項 (Article 109, paragraph (3)), art-109/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百九条第四項（行政機関等匿名加工情報の作成及び提供等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-109/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-109/par-4 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十一条第二項（識別行為の禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-121/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-121/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Protection of Personal Information — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 190 — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10