# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第九十七条 (Article 97) - 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97)（保有個人情報の提供先への通知） — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条（保有個人情報の提供先への通知） — (Notification to A Party to which Personal Information an Administrative Entity Holds is Provided) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-97 **第一項** 行政機関の長等は、訂正決定に基づく保有個人情報の訂正の実施をした場合において、必要があると認めるときは、当該保有個人情報の提供先に対し、遅滞なく、その旨を書面により通知するものとする。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-97/par-1 If an administrative organ's head or administrative entity has implemented a correction of personal information the administrative entity holds based on a decision to make a correction, and the head or entity finds it necessary to do so, they must give a notification to that effect in writing without delay to a party to which the personal information the administrative entity holds has been provided. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第九十六条第三項（事案の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-96/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-96/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 第三十一条第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/par-1 - 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 第三十一条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/par-2 - 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