# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第六十三条 (Article 63) - 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: 第六十三条 (Article 63)（不適正な利用の禁止） — address `art-63` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-63 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-63 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条（不適正な利用の禁止） — (Prohibition of Inappropriate Utilization) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-63 **第一項** 行政機関の長（第二条第八項第四号及び第五号の政令で定める機関にあっては、その機関ごとに政令で定める者をいう。以下この章及び第百七十四条において同じ。）、地方公共団体の機関、独立行政法人等及び地方独立行政法人（以下この章及び次章において「行政機関の長等」という。）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-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-63/par-1 The head of an administrative organ (for any organ designated by Cabinet Order referred to in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (iv) and (v), the head is designated for each respective organ by Cabinet Order; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter and Article 174), a local government organ, an incorporated administrative agency or other prescribed corporation, and a local incorporated administrative agency (hereinafter referred to as an "administrative organ's head or administrative entity" in this Chapter and the following Chapter) must not utilize personal information using a method that has the possibility of fomenting or inducing unlawful or unjust act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-63/par-1: 第二条第八項第四号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二条第八項第四号 (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (iv)), art-2/par-8/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-2/par-8/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-2/par-8/item-4 - art-63/par-1: 第五号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二条第八項第五号 (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (v)), art-2/par-8/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-2/par-8/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-2/par-8/item-5 - art-63/par-1: 第百七十四条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十四条 (Article 174), art-174 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-174 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-174 ## 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 第二条第十一項第三号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-2/par-11/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-2/par-11/item-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第二条第十一項第四号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-2/par-11/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-2/par-11/item-4 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第九十八条第一項第一号（利用停止請求権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-98/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-98/par-1/item-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 - 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 第三十一条第三項（情報提供等の記録についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/par-3 --- ## 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