# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（欠格条項） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（欠格条項） — (Conditions for Ineligibility) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、前条第一項の認定を受けることができない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48/par-1 A person falling under one of the following items may not be certified as referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** この法律の規定により刑に処せられ、その執行を終わり、又は執行を受けることがなくなった日から二年を経過しない者 art-48/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48/par-1/item-1 a person that has been sentenced pursuant to any provision of this Act, if two years have not yet passed since the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百五十五条第一項の規定により認定を取り消され、その取消しの日から二年を経過しない者 art-48/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48/par-1/item-2 a person whose certification has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, paragraph (1), if two years have not yet passed since the revocation; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** その業務を行う役員（法人でない団体で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものの代表者又は管理人を含む。以下この条において同じ。）のうちに、次のいずれかに該当する者があるもの art-48/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48/par-1/item-3 a person with an executive officer (or with a representative or manager, in an organization without legal personality that has made provisions for a representative or manager; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) that falls under one of the following categories: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **イ** 拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられ、又はこの法律の規定により刑に処せられ、その執行を終わり、又は執行を受けることがなくなった日から二年を経過しない者 art-48/par-1/item-3/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48/par-1/item-3/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48/par-1/item-3/sub-1 a person that has been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment or that has been sentenced pursuant to any provision of this Act, if two years have not yet passed since the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement; machine translation, not official **ロ** 第百五十五条第一項の規定により認定を取り消された法人において、その取消しの日前三十日以内にその役員であった者でその取消しの日から二年を経過しない者 art-48/par-1/item-3/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48/par-1/item-3/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48/par-1/item-3/sub-2 a person that, during the 30 days before the revocation, was the officer of a corporation whose certification has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, paragraph (1), if two years have not yet passed since the revocation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: 前条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-47/par-1 - art-48/par-1/item-2: 第百五十五条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十五条第一項 (Article 155, paragraph (1)), art-155/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-155/par-1 - art-48/par-1/item-3: この条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十八条 (Article 48), art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48 - art-48/par-1/item-3/sub-2: 第百五十五条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十五条第一項 (Article 155, paragraph (1)), art-155/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-155/par-1 ## 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 第四十七条第一項（認定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-47/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第四十八条第一項第三号（欠格条項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-48/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-48/par-1/item-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十五条第一項第一号（認定の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-155/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-155/par-1/item-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