# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百二十四条 (Article 124) - 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: 第百二十四条 (Article 124)（適用除外等） — address `art-124` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-124 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-124 - 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. --- ### 第百二十四条（適用除外等） — (Exclusion from Application) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-124 **第一項** 第四節の規定は、刑事事件若しくは少年の保護事件に係る裁判、検察官、検察事務官若しくは司法警察職員が行う処分、刑若しくは保護処分の執行、更生緊急保護又は恩赦に係る保有個人情報（当該裁判、処分若しくは執行を受けた者、更生緊急保護の申出をした者又は恩赦の上申があった者に係るものに限る。）については、適用しない。 art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-124/par-1 The provisions of Section 4 do not apply to personal information an administrative entity holds in relation to a judgment in a criminal case or juvenile protection case, a disposition executed by a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor's assistant officer, or judicial police personnel, execution of a punishment or protective measure, post-incarceration rehabilitation services, or pardon (limited to personal information an administrative entity holds in relation to a person on whom that judgment or measure was delivered, a person towards whom the punishment or protective measure was executed, a person who applied for post-incarceration rehabilitation services, or a person who filed a petition for pardon). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保有個人情報（行政機関情報公開法第五条、独立行政法人等情報公開法第五条又は情報公開条例に規定する不開示情報を専ら記録する行政文書等に記録されているものに限る。）のうち、まだ分類その他の整理が行われていないもので、同一の利用目的に係るものが著しく大量にあるためその中から特定の保有個人情報を検索することが著しく困難であるものは、第四節（第四款を除く。）の規定の適用については、行政機関等に保有されていないものとみなす。 art-124/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-124/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-124/par-2 Of the personal information an administrative entity holds (limited to information recorded in administrative or similar documents that exclusively contain the non-disclosure information prescribed in Article 5 of the Administrative Organs Information Disclosure Act, in Article 5 of the Administrative Organs Information Disclosure Act, or in the information disclosure ordinance), information that has yet to be classified or otherwise put in order and from which it is extremely difficult to retrieve particular personal information the administrative entity holds due to the existence of a very large amount of information relating to the same purpose of use is deemed as not being held by the administrative entity with respect to application of the provisions of Section 4 (excluding Subsection 4). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第百二十五条第一項（適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-125/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-125/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十五条第二項（適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-125/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