# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百三十六条 (Article 136) - 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: 第百三十六条 (Article 136)（身分保障） — address `art-136` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-136 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-136 - 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. --- ### 第百三十六条（身分保障） — (Guarantee of Status) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-136 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-136 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-136 **第一項** 委員長及び委員は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合を除いては、在任中、その意に反して罷免されることがない。 art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-136/par-1 Neither a chairperson nor a commissioner may be dismissed against their will while in office, except cases falling under one of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 破産手続開始の決定を受けたとき。 art-136/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-136/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-136/par-1/item-1 they have been subject to an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** この法律又は番号利用法の規定に違反して刑に処せられたとき。 art-136/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-136/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-136/par-1/item-2 they have been punished in violation of this Act or the Number Use Act; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられたとき。 art-136/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-136/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-136/par-1/item-3 they having been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment; machine translation, not official **四** 委員会により、心身の故障のため職務を執行することができないと認められたとき、又は職務上の義務違反その他委員長若しくは委員たるに適しない非行があると認められたとき。 art-136/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-136/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-136/par-1/item-4 the Commission have recognized that they are incapable of fulfilling the duties because of a mental or physical disorder, or have committed a violation of obligation in the course of their duties or other misconduct unbecoming to a chairperson or commissioner. 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 第百三十七条第一項（罷免） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-137/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百三十九条第四項（会議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-139/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-139/par-4 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T182616-001, translated 2026-10-11 - 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