# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（名称の使用制限） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（名称の使用制限） — (Restriction on Name Use) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-56 **第一項** 認定個人情報保護団体でない者は、認定個人情報保護団体という名称又はこれに紛らわしい名称を用いてはならない。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-56/par-1 A person that is not a certified personal information protection organization must not use a name that refers to that person as a certified personal information protection organization, and must not use any other name that is confusingly similar to this. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-185/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-185/par-1/item-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 附則第七条第一項（委員長又は委員の任命等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4271-65/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4271-65/art-7/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