# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第五十二条 (Article 52) - 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: 第五十二条 (Article 52)（対象事業者） — address `art-52` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-52 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-52 - 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. --- ### 第五十二条（対象事業者） — (Covered Businesses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-52 **第一項** 認定個人情報保護団体は、認定業務の対象となることについて同意を得た個人情報取扱事業者等を対象事業者としなければならない。この場合において、第五十四条第四項の規定による措置をとったにもかかわらず、対象事業者が同条第一項に規定する個人情報保護指針を遵守しないときは、当該対象事業者を認定業務の対象から除外することができる。 art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-52/par-1 A certified personal information protection organization's covered businesses must be comprised of businesses handling personal or other related information that have agreed to be covered by its certified services. In this case, if a covered business does not comply with the personal information protection guidelines prescribed in Article 54, paragraph (1) even though measures pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (4) were taken, the covered business may be excluded from being covered by the certified services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 認定個人情報保護団体は、対象事業者の氏名又は名称を公表しなければならない。 art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-52/par-2 A certified personal information protection organization must disclose the names of its covered businesses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52/par-1: 第五十四条第四項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十四条第四項 (Article 54, paragraph (4)), art-54/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/par-4 - art-52/par-1: 同条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-54/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 附則第六条第一項（認定個人情報保護団体の対象事業者に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-5021-44/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-5021-44/art-6/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