# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百七十六条 (Article 176) - 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: 第百七十六条 (Article 176) — address `art-176` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-176 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-176 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百七十六条 art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-176 **第一項** 行政機関等の職員若しくは職員であった者、第六十六条第二項各号に定める業務若しくは第七十三条第五項若しくは第百二十一条第三項の委託を受けた業務に従事している者若しくは従事していた者又は行政機関等において個人情報、仮名加工情報若しくは匿名加工情報の取扱いに従事している派遣労働者若しくは従事していた派遣労働者が、正当な理由がないのに、個人の秘密に属する事項が記録された第六十条第二項第一号に係る個人情報ファイル（その全部又は一部を複製し、又は加工したものを含む。）を提供したときは、二年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-176/par-1 If an employee or former employee of an administrative entity, a person engaged in or formerly engaged in duties prescribed in the items of Article 66, paragraph (2) or in entrusted duties under Article 73, paragraph (5) or Article 121, paragraph (3), or a dispatched worker that is or was engaged in handling personal information, pseudonymized personal information or anonymized personal information in an administrative entity provides other persons with a personal information file (including a personal information file all or part of which has been reproduced or processed) relating to Article 60, paragraph (2), item (i) that contains confidential information on individuals without justifiable grounds, that person is subject to imprisonment for not more than two years or to a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-176/par-1: 第六十六条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十六条第二項 (Article 66, paragraph (2)), art-66/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-66/par-2 - art-176/par-1: 第七十三条第五項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第七十三条第五項 (Article 73, paragraph (5)), art-73/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-73/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-73/par-5 - art-176/par-1: 第百二十一条第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十一条第三項 (Article 121, paragraph (3)), art-121/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-121/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-121/par-3 - art-176/par-1: 第六十条第二項第一号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十条第二項第一号 (Article 60, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-60/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-60/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-60/par-2/item-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十七条第一項（従事者の義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-67/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十五条第一項（適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-125/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-125/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十五条第二項（適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-125/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-180/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-183/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-183/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