# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第八十二条 (Article 82) - 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: 第八十二条 (Article 82)（開示請求に対する措置） — address `art-82` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-82 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-82 - 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. --- ### 第八十二条（開示請求に対する措置） — (Measures on Requests for Disclosure) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-82 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、開示請求に係る保有個人情報の全部又は一部を開示するときは、その旨の決定をし、開示請求者に対し、その旨、開示する保有個人情報の利用目的及び開示の実施に関し政令で定める事項を書面により通知しなければならない。ただし、第六十二条第二号又は第三号に該当する場合における当該利用目的については、この限りでない。 art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-82/par-1 When disclosing all or a part of personal information an administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for disclosure, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must make a decision to that effect, and notify the person requesting disclosure of that decision, the purpose of use of that personal information to be disclosed, and matters specified by Cabinet Order relating to the implementation of disclosure in writing; provided, however, that this does not apply to the purpose of use in cases that fall under Article 62, item (ii) or item (iii). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 行政機関の長等は、開示請求に係る保有個人情報の全部を開示しないとき（前条の規定により開示請求を拒否するとき、及び開示請求に係る保有個人情報を保有していないときを含む。）は、開示をしない旨の決定をし、開示請求者に対し、その旨を書面により通知しなければならない。 art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-82/par-2 If an administrative organ's head or administrative entity decides not to disclose any personal information the administrative entity holds that is subject to a request for disclosure (this includes the cases in which the administrative organ's head or administrative entity refuses a request for disclosure pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article or does not hold that personal information), the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must notify the person requesting disclosure to that effect in writing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-82/par-1: 第六十二条第二号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十二条第一項第二号 (Article 62, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-62/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-62/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-62/par-1/item-2 - art-82/par-1: 第三号 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十二条第一項第三号 (Article 62, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-62/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-62/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-62/par-1/item-3 - art-82/par-2: 前条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十一条 (Article 81), art-81 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-81 ## 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 第七十八条第一項第四号（保有個人情報の開示義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-78/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-78/par-1/item-4 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十五条第三項（事案の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-85/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-85/par-3 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第八十七条第四項（開示の実施） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-87/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-87/par-4 - 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