# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（処分等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4211-49/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（処分等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Dispositions and Other Matters caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4211-49/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行前にこの法律による改正前のそれぞれの法律（これに基づく命令を含む。以下「旧法令」という。）の規定によりされた免許、許可、認可、承認、指定その他の処分又は通知その他の行為は、法令に別段の定めがあるもののほか、この法律の施行後は、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律（これに基づく命令を含む。以下「新法令」という。）の相当規定によりされた免許、許可、認可、承認、指定その他の処分又は通知その他の行為とみなす。 suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-1 Any license, permission, authorization, approval, designation or other dispositions given, or notification made, or other acts taken prior to effectuating this Act, pursuant to the provisions of the respective Acts prior to revision by this Act (including orders pursuant thereto; hereinafter referred to as the "Former Laws and Regulations"), is deemed to be a license, permission, authorization, approval, designation or other dispositions given, or notification made, or other acts taken pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the respective Acts after revision by this Act (including orders pursuant thereto; hereinafter referred to as the "New Laws and Regulations"), except as otherwise specified in laws and orders. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法令の規定によりされている免許の申請、届出その他の行為は、法令に別段の定めがあるもののほか、この法律の施行後は、新法令の相当規定によりされた免許の申請、届出その他の行為とみなす。 suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-2 Except as otherwise specified by laws and regulations, the filing of an application for licensing, the filing of a notification, or any comparable action that has been undertaken pursuant to the Former Laws and Regulations by the time this Act comes into effect, is deemed to constitute the filing of an application for licensing, the filing of a notification, or a comparable action that has been undertaken pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the New Laws and Regulations. machine translation, not official **第三項** この法律の施行前に旧法令の規定により報告、届出、提出その他の手続をしなければならない事項で、この法律の施行日前にその手続がされていないものについては、法令に別段の定めがあるもののほか、この法律の施行後は、これを、新法令の相当規定によりその手続がされていないものとみなして、新法令の規定を適用する。 suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-4/par-3 With respect to the particulars for which reports, notification, submission or other procedures must be made prior to effectuating this Act, pursuant to the provisions of the Former Laws and Regulations, for which such procedures have not yet been taken prior to the Effective Date of this Act, the provisions of the New Laws and Regulations apply after effectuating this Act, deeming that such procedures have not yet been taken pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the New Laws and Regulations, except as otherwise specified in laws and orders. machine translation, not official ## 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 附則第九条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/suppl-4211-49/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/suppl-4211-49/art-9/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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T184447-001, translated 2026-10-11 - 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