# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百五十四条 (Article 154) - 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: 第百五十四条 (Article 154)（命令） — address `art-154` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-154 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-154 - 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. --- ### 第百五十四条（命令） — (Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-154 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-154 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-154 **第一項** 委員会は、第四章第五節の規定の施行に必要な限度において、認定個人情報保護団体に対し、認定業務の実施の方法の改善、個人情報保護指針の変更その他の必要な措置をとるべき旨を命ずることができる。 art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-154/par-1 The Commission may order a certified personal information protection organization to improve a method of rendering certified services, alter personal information protection guidelines, or take any other necessary measures, to the extent necessary to implement the provisions of Section 5 of Chapter IV. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十五条第一項第四号（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-155/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-155/par-1/item-4 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十一条第一項（送達すべき書類） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-161/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十一条第二項（送達すべき書類） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-161/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