# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第五十一条 (Article 51) - 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（廃止の届出） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条（廃止の届出） — (Notification of Discontinuation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-51 **第一項** 第四十七条第一項の認定（前条第一項の変更の認定を含む。）を受けた者（以下この節及び第六章において「認定個人情報保護団体」という。）は、その認定に係る業務（以下この節及び第六章において「認定業務」という。）を廃止しようとするときは、政令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、その旨を個人情報保護委員会に届け出なければならない。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-51/par-1 Before intending to discontinue the services subject to certification (hereinafter referred to as "certified services" in this Section and Chapter VI), a person that has received certification under Article 47, paragraph (1) (including the certification of alteration under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article) (the person in question is hereinafter referred to as a "certified personal information protection organization" in this Section and Chapter VI) must notify the Personal Information Protection Commission to that effect as prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 個人情報保護委員会は、前項の規定による届出があったときは、その旨を公示しなければならない。 art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-51/par-2 Upon receiving notification under the preceding paragraph, the Personal Information Protection Commission must issue public notice indicating this. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51/par-1: 第四十七条第一項 → 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-51/par-1: 前条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十条第一項 (Article 50, paragraph (1)), art-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-50/par-1 - art-51/par-2: 前項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-51/par-1 ## 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 第七条第二項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-7/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-7/par-2/item-6 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十条第一項（変更の認定等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-50/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十一条第二項（廃止の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-51/par-2 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十五条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-185/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-185/par-1/item-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