# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（不適正な利用の禁止） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（不適正な利用の禁止） — (Prohibition of Inappropriate Use) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-19 **第一項** 個人情報取扱事業者は、違法又は不当な行為を助長し、又は誘発するおそれがある方法により個人情報を利用してはならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-19/par-1 A business handling personal information must not utilize personal information in a way that there is a possibility of fomenting or inducing unlawful or unjust act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第三十五条第一項（利用停止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-35/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十五条第三項（適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-125/par-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十八条第一項（勧告及び命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-148/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百四十八条第三項（勧告及び命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-148/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-148/par-3 - 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第三十条第一項（個人情報保護法の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-30/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 - 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