# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百二十六条 (Article 126)

- 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: 第百二十六条 (Article 126)（権限又は事務の委任） — address `art-126`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-126
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-126
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### 第百二十六条（権限又は事務の委任） — (Delegation of Authority or Processes)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-126</sup>

  **第一項**  行政機関の長は、政令（内閣の所轄の下に置かれる機関及び会計検査院にあっては、当該機関の命令）で定めるところにより、第二節から前節まで（第七十四条及び第四節第四款を除く。）に定める権限又は事務を当該行政機関の職員に委任することができる。
  <sup>art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-126/par-1</sup>
  The head of an administrative organ may delegate the authority or processes prescribed in Section 2 through the preceding Section (excluding Article 74 and Section 4, Subsection 4) to employees of that administrative organ, pursuant to Cabinet Order (or in the case of an organ established under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet o in the case of the Board of Audit, pursuant to an order of those organs).
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-126/par-1: 第七十四条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十四条 (Article 74), art-74 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-74

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## 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