# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百六十二条 (Article 162) - 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: 第百六十二条 (Article 162)（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — address `art-162` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-162 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-162 - 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. --- ### 第百六十二条（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — (Application, Mutatis Mutandis, of the Code of Civil Procedure Concerning Service of Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-162 **第一項** 前条の規定による送達については、民事訴訟法第百条第一項、第百一条、第百二条の二、第百三条、第百五条、第百六条及び第百八条の規定を準用する。この場合において、同項中「裁判所」とあり、及び同条中「裁判長」とあるのは「個人情報保護委員会」と、同法第百一条第一項中「執行官」とあるのは「個人情報保護委員会の職員」と読み替えるものとする。 art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-162/par-1 The provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1), Article 101, Article 102-2, Article 103, Article 105, Article 106, and Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis to the service under the preceding Article. In this case, the term "court" in Article 100, paragraph (1) of the Code and the term "presiding judge" in Article 108 of the Code are deemed to be replaced by "Personal Information Protection Commission", and the term "court execution officer" in Article 101, paragraph (1) of the Code is deemed to be replaced by "official of the Personal Information Protection Commission". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-162/par-1: 前条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十一条 (Article 161), art-161 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-161 - art-162/par-1: 民事訴訟法第百条第一項 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百条第一項 (Article 100, paragraph (1)), art-100/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-162/par-1: 第百一条 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百一条 (Article 101), art-101 — not held in this collection - art-162/par-1: 第百二条の二 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百二条の二 (Article 102-2), art-102-2 — not held in this collection - art-162/par-1: 第百三条 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百三条 (Article 103), art-103 — not held in this collection - art-162/par-1: 第百五条 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百五条 (Article 105), art-105 — not held in this collection - art-162/par-1: 第百六条 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百六条 (Article 106), art-106 — not held in this collection - art-162/par-1: 第百八条 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百八条 (Article 108), art-108 — not held in this collection - art-162/par-1: 同法第百一条第一項 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百一条第一項 (Article 101, paragraph (1)), art-101/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十条第一項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-150/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-150/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十三条第一項第二号（公示送達） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-163/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-163/par-1/item-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十三条第一項第三号（公示送達） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-163/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-163/par-1/item-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十四条第一項（電子情報処理組織の使用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-164/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-164/par-1 --- ## 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