# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百六十五条 (Article 165) - 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: 第百六十五条 (Article 165)（施行の状況の公表） — address `art-165` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-165 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-165 - 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. --- ### 第百六十五条（施行の状況の公表） — (Public Announcement of the Status of Enforcement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-165 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-165 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-165 **第一項** 委員会は、行政機関の長等に対し、この法律の施行の状況について報告を求めることができる。 art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-165/par-1 The Commission may request an administrative organ's head or administrative entity to report on the status of enforcement of this Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 委員会は、毎年度、前項の報告を取りまとめ、その概要を公表するものとする。 art-165/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-165/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-165/par-2 Each year the Commission is to compile reports referred to in the preceding paragraph and make a summary of those reports public. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-165/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十五条第一項 (Article 165, paragraph (1)), art-165/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-165/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十五条第二項（施行の状況の公表） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-165/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-165/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